Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 2 | Old women nodded their heads and chomped their false teeth , young men smiled sympathetically but no one could shed any light on the mysterious car accident that had killed his father . |
| 3 | It was her taking the sleeping pill that had done it . |
| 4 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 5 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 6 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 7 | The voices were , in one sense , the price paid for the saeva indignatio that had fired his greatest fiction . |
| 8 | Although the girls could be noisy and difficult to discipline they generally observed a neatness in their work habits that continued to impress me . |
| 9 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 10 | At the end of that period , in May 1943 , Hugh Wilson , who was in charge of the Rangoon diocese , Bishop West being in the USA recovering from a severe motor accident , agreed that we should move to Simla so that I might maintain liaison with the Burma Government-in-exile that had made its headquarters there . |
| 11 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 12 | But for all that , in its basics it was indisputably the same Indian-made version of the 1956 Morris Oxford that had lorded it over the roads of India for some thirty-odd years now . |
| 13 | Hope nodded but it was the business scheme that had caught his imagination . |
| 14 | Smashing through the few Night Goblins that remained to oppose them , Duregar and Belegar headed west . |
| 15 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 16 | The clouds of water vapour that had surrounded it had condensed to form seas , but they were still hot . |
| 17 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 18 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 19 | She remembered the great white whale that had taken her leg , and the pistol ball that had claimed her eye , and a hundred other wounds and scars beside . |
| 20 | Was this the dreaded writer 's block , or was it merely her desperation to win the SHE/Timotei writing competition that had rendered her completely lost for words ? |
| 21 | This is the basic one-trial passive avoidance learning model that had attracted me . |
| 22 | The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember . |
| 23 | The road accident that had left him lame had also worn him down . |
| 24 | Rumours of a social evening at the Hall with the entire village being invited had n't exactly dispelled all worry , since it was his summer parties that had made him so unpopular around the area in the first place . |
| 25 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 26 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 27 | The police van that had passed us drew up alongside . |
| 28 | Joanne O'Haire , from Ballybofey , was out of the game nearly two years with a Gazza-style knee injury that threatened to leave her crippled . |
| 29 | LIAM Coyle could be on his way from Omagh Town after a successful comeback from the knee injury that threatened to end his career . |
| 30 | The root of Geogg Griffin 's problems lay in a childhood accident that had bent his right ( bowling ) arm . |