Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 2 | I believe it to be Treasure Hunting magazine that has kept us all together and interested in the hobby , for all these years . |
| 3 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |
| 4 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 5 | This last possibility is one that has given me some concern over these months , and is something about which I still feel undecided . |
| 6 | Never , ever breed from a mare that has given you any cause to fear her in the stable . |
| 7 | Mr Major said Mr Patten had been ‘ the architect of of the campaign that has won us this victory … |
| 8 | The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system . |
| 9 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 10 | It 's the follow-up for a TV programme that keeps eluding us all . |
| 11 | He has a way of speaking that seems to turn them all into engines , which , in terms of simple physics , is what they are . |
| 12 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 13 | Third World countries that attempt to slap their own patents on life-forms have been attacked by the industry on the grounds that they are unfairly blocking corporate interests . |
| 14 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 15 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 16 | She did n't tell him the rest about her father and Camille , or the thoughts that had tormented her that long night . |
| 17 | The heat and strength of him that had alarmed her that first night now enthralled her . |
| 18 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 19 | Crossing to the Grand Gendarme , we hardly paused at the rock step that had given us such a problem earlier . |
| 20 | Chen looked down at the hand that had grasped his own so firmly . |
| 21 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 22 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 23 | Dr Tariq did not vouchsafe to the Colonel the news that had reached him that morning , that a Frenchman , home on leave , had sent by letter his resignation . |
| 24 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 25 | She realised she was being too serious , a problem that had plagued her all her life . |
| 26 | It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it . |
| 27 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 28 | Above all she sought — and hoped — to prepare herself in every way for modern motherhood , free of the restrictions that had marked her own unhappy upbringing . |
| 29 | He saw that honesty and within it somehow , a total lack of the cynicism that had marred his own life . |
| 30 | Or would that not be defying fate ? … the same fate that had reversed his own fortunes that very night ? |