Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And was it only yesterday when she 'd worked beside him at the barbecue while becoming vitally conscious of the attraction that made her feel drawn towards him ? |
| 2 | Then she realized it was her own desire to be valued , noticed even , that made her want to do something that would n't take a minute once she 'd started . |
| 3 | ‘ Inside information , ’ he said with smug satisfaction that made her want to hit him . |
| 4 | He gave her a look of contempt that made her want to hit him . |
| 5 | Lindsey stood in the doorway , conscious of a sudden tension in her limbs , a feeling of blind panic that made her want to draw back . |
| 6 | A tingling that made her want to lift her feathers so the wind would touch her skin . |
| 7 | With a feeling of despair she knew there was altogether too much about him that attracted her , that made her want to respond . |
| 8 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 9 | She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die . |
| 10 | John looked at Ianthe and winked , a curiously old-fashioned gesture that made her want to laugh . |
| 11 | There was something in his voice that made her want to throw herself into his arms ; but then she knew that Aggie would n't like that . |
| 12 | It was a thought that made her breathing grow even shorter , and blackness was on her , and everything disappeared , to reappear a few moments later . |
| 13 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 14 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 15 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 16 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 17 | Bit of a problem , that made me cry did n't it ? |
| 18 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 19 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 20 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 21 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 22 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 23 | They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's . |
| 24 | What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ? |
| 25 | He smiled slowly down at her , his gaze centring on her mouth in a way that made it start to throb . |
| 26 | Even with these limitations , the home-grown system brought British Gypsum benefits that made it want to take EDI much further . |
| 27 | You seem to have an emotion , that made you resent making a sacrifice to your brother , and , and presumably , would have stopped you making it , if you 'd been free to choose . |
| 28 | I 'd like to think that it was remorse that made you come sobbing into Adam 's arms that way , but I 'm not so naïve as to believe it . |
| 29 | who moved out , that led me to want to live in the flats . |
| 30 | It were me that realized we 'd fetched wrong ones , not Des . |