Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail will be rapped today for not doing an immediate drug test on a train driver after a crash that killed two and injured 500 . |
| 2 | Zamora in Los Angeles is like Murphy in Ireland , ‘ and most of them are just as tough ’ said McCullough 's manager , Matt Tinley after a bout that brought out the best in Wayne . |
| 3 | Finally , on 15th June 1094 , the city gave itself up totally to Rodrigo after a siege that had lasted nineteen months . |
| 4 | In contrast , Alcatel France was having problems after a showdown that involved France selling Mirage fighter aircraft to Taiwan . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 6 | They did n't regain top place until April , after a winter that saw a home defeat by strugglers Chelsea and another 'flu epidemic . |
| 7 | I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason . |
| 8 | ‘ You looked beautiful , ’ he said after a pause that agonized them both . |
| 9 | ‘ He sort of talked me into it , ’ she said after a pause that seemed to have gone out of control . |
| 10 | The sources said he is infuriated with her after a row that erupted last week , and is likely to distance himself from her . |
| 11 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |
| 12 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 13 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 14 | KIM BAILEY and jockey Anthony Tory yesterday ‘ mutually agreed ’ to part after a partnership that had lasted nearly five years . |
| 15 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 16 | Somehow it was helping , this inevitable back-stabbing repartee when two lovers met after an affair that had left a pool of acid where fond memories should have rested . |
| 17 | Two of Elizabeth 's Attorneys , John Price and Thomas Atkins , were certainly guilty of abusing justice : Price forged those parts of a document that had been eaten by mice and Atkins took bribes from men charged before the Council . |
| 18 | Phil complained , mourning the ending of a conversation that had begun to interest him . |
| 19 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 20 | She was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top that emphasised her heavy breasts . |
| 21 | So explicit are the tiny gestures and the perfect timing of exits and entrances that the audience is forced to recognise the personal tragedy of a love that spoke no words . |
| 22 | This is a story of a misunderstanding that reduced a man to suicide , also the love affair that fell foul of the postal system and tragic circumstances , the combined forces of fate culminating in the tragedy . |
| 23 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 24 | The Tunnel was the British version of a film that had already been made in France and Germany , about a crazed engineer who sacrifices his family in order to complete the construction of a link between Britain and America . |
| 25 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 26 | Robyn peered through a Perspex window and watched things moving round and going in and out in sudden spasms , lubricated by spurts of a liquid that looked like milky coffee . |
| 27 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
| 28 | Of a dive that took her 1,250 feet down to the floor of the Pacific , Sylvia Earle said , ‘ The light was faint but , when my eyes adjusted , the world I saw was incredibly beautiful . |
| 29 | ‘ Well ? ’ said William , when they 'd seen it all and adjourned to the pub opposite the station , an old waiting room of a pub that had not yet been converted into a wine bar or a theme park and was consequently empty . |
| 30 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |