Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 2 | I found your recent article ‘ A new discipline ’ on marketing in the Nineties ( MW December 6 ) extremely interesting and felt that it raised a number of important issues . |
| 3 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal , however , thought the acquittals wrong and declared that it was not going to ‘ compound the error ’ by quashing the convictions . |
| 5 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 6 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 7 | When Mark returned with a large wooden and discovered that it floated , he looked up and a slow smile crept over his face as he said , ‘ It 's a trick ! ’ |
| 8 | They both enthused over my new look and I became weepy and wailed that I could n't keep them . |
| 9 | An engineer 's report had condemned the spire as dangerous and said that it must be dismantled . |
| 10 | He saw Olga Stych go off to church an hour early and deduced that she must be helping with some small church chore before the service . |
| 11 | How was it possible that in a single fraction of a second , and for the very first time , she discovered a motion of the arm and body so perfect and polished that it resembled a finished work of art ? |
| 12 | ‘ I was so nervous and fatigued that I could n't concentrate . |
| 13 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 14 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 15 | However , the atmosphere was so friendly and relaxed that it was n't long before we made lots of friends and , spurred on by the Animation Team , joined in the occasional game of volleyball or tennis — you can hire racquets and even have expert tuition if you want to improve on your technique . |
| 16 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 17 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 18 | The Spaniard was upset and stated that he would never play in America again , a statement which delighted many Americans . |
| 19 | He ended the tour so upset and disorganized that he had no plans for the summer holiday . |
| 20 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 21 | His voice was pleasant and indicated that he was n't from this part of the country ; the South , she imagined . |
| 22 | May LJ accepts that no such list can be exhaustive and stressed that it was a matter of fact for the Industrial Tribunal to decide . |
| 23 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 24 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 25 | The three of them were so smoke begrimed and blackened that it was difficult to tell what they were wearing but two of them appeared to be dressed in white while the third was in a navy blue overall . |
| 26 | He shook her awake and explained that he planned to make his way back into the forest , skirting the area of rocks , to get a closer look at whatever it was that had caught his attention . |
| 27 | Baldwin agreed that the request for a special bill was reasonable and said that he would commend it to his colleagues . |
| 28 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 29 | While these means of human communication are fundamental to our culture , other technological means of communication such as television , radio and computers have become so powerful and specialized that they can greatly influence how we perceive and accept new information . |
| 30 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |