Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 2 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 3 | ‘ Some businesses that planned to shelve their old computer systems have stuck with them instead , ’ he says . |
| 4 | And think this woman that had lost her baby she said , she 's one of the lucky so and so 's you know she lost hers , I could n't get rid of mine . |
| 5 | Those banks that chose to ditch their exposures to Mexico and Argentina mostly received kudos for doing so . |
| 6 | Anna 's mother died shortly after childbirth ( the same fate that had befallen her father 's mother ) and the father and daughter developed a close and mutually productive lifelong relationship . |
| 7 | Or would that not be defying fate ? … the same fate that had reversed his own fortunes that very night ? |
| 8 | Driven from his home county by the opposition of cotton workers to any machinery that seemed to threaten their livelihoods , Arkwright went to Nottingham and , in partnership with Jedediah Strutt , set up a factory to produce yarn for the knitting industry . |
| 9 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 10 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 11 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |