Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that that bloke that rang me up ? |
| 2 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 3 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 4 | He made for it , taking a short cut through the carpark adjoining a few prefabricated sheds that called themselves the Hawkwood Industrial Estate . |
| 5 | It was this separate account that confused me . |
| 6 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 7 | Reality swung back with another dizzying rush that made her head swim . |
| 8 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 9 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 10 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 11 | The few human tribes that opposed him , mostly ancient enemies of the Unberogens , were defeated in battle or driven beyond the Grey Mountains to the south and northwards into the forests beyond the Middle Mountains . |
| 12 | It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though , for I read every patient 's case notes with avidity . |
| 13 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 14 | On a deeper level , an actor is someone who remembers the primitive primordial impulses that inhabited his body before he was ‘ civilized ’ and ‘ educated ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was this very indecision that made him depressed . |
| 16 | It was this very vision that drew him to a man with whom he had so little in common besides . |
| 17 | It was this beautiful lady that blew her top in 1450 BC with four times the explosively destructive power of Krakatoa . |
| 18 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 19 | Christmas has come early for me with this one — another mysterious release that planted itself firmly on the Vibes desk . |
| 20 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 21 | It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you . |
| 22 | It was this particular feature that made its isolation so difficult , for it is impossible to grow chlamydia on the normal media used for bacteria , since they do not contain living cells . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the writing by a testator of his name on a testamentary document , as for instance by writing ‘ My will by John Smith ’ or perhaps by typing ‘ The will of John Smith , ’ or in some other passage that left it uncertain whether in doing so he was intending to authenticate the document , would not , by itself , satisfy either paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( b ) of section 9 . |
| 24 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 25 | It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision . |
| 26 | It did n't smell like something the colonel would use , so she guessed it was Leo 's , and for some silly reason that made her feel vulnerable , as though she 'd lost her identity . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 28 | She wore a belted Japanese kimono that emphasised her cottage-loaf figure and had a warm , rumpled , half-awake look that made Maxim just want to curl up beside her and sleep for a week . |
| 29 | She collapsed on the chesterfield and tried to bury her face in one of the stony little cushions that decorated it . |
| 30 | It was just such foolhardy behaviour that enabled me continually to miss the summit of Creag Meagaidh . |