Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 2 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 3 | Ruth was used to feeling afraid in his presence ; but now the fear that touched her seemed more on his account than on her own . |
| 4 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 5 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 6 | The thread that bound them had snapped with one expert tug . |
| 7 | He fixed her with a look that demanded she raised her eyes to his . |
| 8 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 9 | Every vehicle that passed she scanned , every passer-by she scrutinised . |
| 10 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 11 | The companies that received them had achieved tough , testing and challenging targets of commitment to training . |
| 12 | They were narrowly beaten by a four-nation , eight-man team of elite males in Italy in a spectacle that proved you did n't have to be one of the team to enjoy the fun . |
| 13 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 15 | In the brief civil war that followed he took Worcester for the rebels in January 1322 , but was captured by the king 's forces at Tutbury , Derbyshire , on 11 March . |
| 16 | But in the weeks that followed they became very close and clung to one another in their loss . |
| 17 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 18 | Over the weeks that followed I noticed more of them . |
| 19 | Then , with a deep sniff that indicated he had considered things long enough , he began . |
| 20 | Work for an era that needed it spelt out ; perhaps Lijn 's recorded voice expresses from the head while a red laser beam cuts sharply through smoke that generates from the base of a black lacquered body . |
| 21 | Harriet made a grunting sound that meant she 'd given in under protest and Jess did n't wait for any other sign . |
| 22 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 23 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 24 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 25 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 26 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 27 | With each day that passed she became more deeply involved and more enthusiastic about what she was doing . |
| 28 | With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army 's casualties . |
| 29 | procedure that said they did it . |
| 30 | Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ? |