Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [noun] had [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man first tempted her and then rejected her , she was ‘ all shamed and confused in herself ’ , was afflicted with horrible temptations to lechery and despair , and ‘ the devil put into her mind that God had forsaken her ’ . |
| 2 | She straightened the skirt that Thérèse had lent her , dusted it with both hands , then descended the stairs . |
| 3 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 4 | The hair that God had left him was sparse , dry and vertical , as if he brushed it forward every morning . |
| 5 | Ronni looked at Guido now from beneath her lashes , taking in the strong , mahogany-dark profile and remembering the story that Jeff had told her . |
| 6 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 7 | For once , his mind was not on royalty and a possible peerage , not on Dickens , not on his incipient gastritis , not even on the blow that Angelina had dealt him . |
| 8 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 9 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 10 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 11 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 12 | But she also knew that if Jake and Janice could offer the happy home that Jake had promised she would give up her own claim in an instant . |
| 13 | All the terrors that Tony had taught her came crowding back . |
| 14 | He had only recently joined QP and considered it important that he should serve the Church and enjoy worshipping the Lord in the place that God had put him . |
| 15 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 16 | 344 for 1 meant a nine-wicket victory in a match that England had thought they might win . |
| 17 | James Hunt , QC , for the defence , put it to nurse Geeson that Allitt had told her after Liam suffered his first attack but she had forgotten . |
| 18 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 19 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 20 | It was probably the effect of the wine that Giles had plied her with so freely . |
| 21 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 22 | Tessa sat at Bob 's desk in the empty department all afternoon , newspaper files stacked in front of her , trying intermittently to finish the job that Dyson had given her . |
| 23 | They had enjoyed a happy day and it seemed to Carrie that Seb had noticed her , really noticed her , as a young woman for the very first time . |
| 24 | She had hated Dierdriu on the terrible day that Dierdriu had told her that she and Fergus were to be parted . |
| 25 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |
| 26 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 27 | Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway . |
| 28 | Presbyterian church minister Barrie Redmore , told the court that Paula had asked him to baptise her baby three months before she was found hanged . |
| 29 | Presbyterian church minister Barrie Redmore , told the court that Paula had asked him to baptise her baby three months before she was found hanged . |
| 30 | A former fellow prisoner at Gloucester Jail , Brendan Ekworth , told the court that Gardiner had told him that White would have an accident . |