Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
| 2 | Experience had taught her that allowing him time meant , in effect , allowing him to stay . |
| 3 | Pappy had given her that watch . |
| 4 | He had a bizarre family resemblance to Picasso ; saurian as well as simian , decades of living in the sun , the quintessential Mediterranean man , who had discarded everything that lay between him and his vitality . |
| 5 | She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place . |
| 6 | She had done everything that seemed right in the circumstances . |
| 7 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 8 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 9 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 10 | It was n't what Jane had told her that had carried the conversation along as much as what Jane had implied . |
| 11 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 12 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 13 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |