Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing . |
| 2 | I put it on the bed where we made the baby that was n't and what am I to put in the water-marked , dog-tooth lining ? |
| 3 | Er no when you laid the neeps that was yeuking the neeps . |
| 4 | THE greatest survey ever into sexual habits reveals that the Great Aids Scare never became the nightmare that was feared . |
| 5 | I 'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong , but it certainly got the reaction that was necessary that people appreciated that she was there , she was the Minister for Employment , and indeed she was causing a hell of a lot of problems for G M B members . |
| 6 | So I cancelled the gig and they got the piano that was the right size and the gig was back on . |
| 7 | Dorothy fought the anger that was so debilitating , so futile . |
| 8 | The police raided the Crown in Dock'ead an' stopped the boxin' that was goin' on there , an' they nicked a lot o' street bookies who was there at the time . |
| 9 | Thus John used the term that was mean meaningful to both Jews and Gentiles with God . |
| 10 | I remember once the late professor G S Stuart reminding us that , in relation to the death of Jesus on the cross , we do not know how deep were the waters crossed , or how dark was the night that the lord passed through ere he found the sheep that was lost . |
| 11 | They traced the car that was seen on the A12 and found that its number had been noted by a patrol car near Saffron Walden on the day the bomb was planted on Bryan Thomson . |
| 12 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 13 | She was smiling brightly , but her eyes retained a solemnity that was strangely intimidating . |
| 14 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 15 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 16 | Eventually I arrived down near Leicester Square , found a cafe that was still open and bought myself another cup of tea . |
| 17 | As he did so , he moved a handkerchief that was lying on it . |
| 18 | Through the great Asian railways , Russia created a system that was entirely rail-borne . |
| 19 | Influenced by Chicago house as well as the unlikely European sounds of Kraftwerk , Yello and Depeche Mode — Saunderson , May ( who uses the names Mayday and Rythim Is Rythim ) and the original techno-master Atkins ( Cybortron and Model 500 ) , created a music that was sparser , leaner and harsher than house . |
| 20 | They created a dust that was almost suffocating . |
| 21 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 22 | Even though they had occupied it separately , the fact that they had shared his bed created an intimacy that was impossible to ignore . |
| 23 | A curricle was in sight , its bowling progress slowing as the driver recognised the dog that was bounding straight into its path . |
| 24 | ‘ You would be a braver man than I am if you went into our dressing room and told the players that was how you thought of them , ’ said Robertson , rebuking the journalist who ventured the opinion that any squad minus nine of its original complement was necessarily sub-standard . |
| 25 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 26 | Tall and proud he stood , his hawklike features stern as he surveyed the kingdom that was his . |
| 27 | Karloff recalled the chaos that was going on around him : ‘ When we started filming , the removal men came to take away the sets . |
| 28 | He ate the food that was provided with the avidness of those who sat around him . |
| 29 | For the second year running , the company hosted a party that was greatly enjoyed by all . |
| 30 | Lord Ray booked a room that was quiet , dim lit |