Example sentences of "[pron] that [vb past] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , Robert Trivers in the original path breaking paper of his that launched the whole theory of parent offspring conflict , without knowing it , predicted it .
2 She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate .
3 Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life .
4 Nothing that rang a bell .
5 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
6 " It was me that shot the bull , son .
7 Why did you think it was me that wrote the letter ?
8 So there were parts of me that watched the naming ceremony for the new catapult with some amusement , even contempt .
9 He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice .
10 He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks .
11 ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really .
12 It was the oriental gentleman who sat with them that sent the shudders down Doyle 's spine .
13 In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
14 This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah
15 Cos I mean , I remember saying that , they , he knew somebody that had a catheter for two years !
16 It was she that kept the thing going .
17 Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere .
18 Obviously something must have happened between you that caused the change .
19 Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’
20 And this police car came and and my dad says , Was that you that fired the gun out of the window ?
21 Those who prefer the second view are , however , in this difficulty : that it was the Movement itself that took the decision to reduce its ambitions to the more narrowly ameliorative and unobjectionable .
22 I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it .
23 Everything that made the album interesting and enjoyable ( quirky samples , ambience , humour , diversity ) has disappeared into the ether , replaced by mind-crushingly tedious , minimalist techno and weedy industrial wankcore .
24 ‘ I 'd like to learn about the tactics , the weather , the terrain — everything that influenced the final result . ’
25 Autocracy appeared the very linchpin of everything that offended a small but intellectually dynamic intelligentsia which was breaking away from the traditional values of the nobility .
26 The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 ( see p. 131 above ) and the Vatican Council demonstrated , by the very extremism of their rejection of everything that characterised the mid-nineteenth century , that they were entirely on the defensive .
27 The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature .
28 Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door .
29 I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference .
30 And as long as you did n't choose something that had a very bad dye , in which case it would all run , but mostly it was very light , it was easy to wear , even easy to clean , so it was an immensely popular fabric .
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