Example sentences of "[det] [that] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening .
2 Yeah I mean but on the other hand the there 's probably quite a few that did read it .
3 Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible …
4 For those who survived , the heady talk and dreams , the vision of a global system and of revolutionaries without national allegiances , all that had inspired them before 1917 , must have seemed as remote and irrelevant as childhood .
5 When they were together , she felt in charge ; and the feeling made her forget all that had brought her to this .
6 After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both .
7 those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ;
8 The French invasion plan of 1762 was very different from all those that had preceded it .
9 The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union .
10 If economic reform was the ‘ key to all our problems ’ at the outset of Gorbachev 's administration and political reform increasingly the means by which it was to be accomplished , the ultimate objective remained the achievement of a form of socialism which advanced decisively on those that had preceded it .
11 Then she remembered , with grudging fairness , that it was an obsession of her own that had brought her down there .
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