Example sentences of "a [noun] [that] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 2 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |
| 3 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 4 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 5 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 6 | I used to know a Pekinese that used to er pinch everybody 's flower pots everybo all over the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | street in central London ; name derived from a chain that used to be thrown across the roadway to prevent its use during divine service in St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 8 | I write them letters , I get people to send er like Photo Gallery in Cardiff , erm I rang them up , they were sending us stuff and it was addressed to a woman that used to be in the ph er activities officer about fou three years ago . |
| 9 | By the end of the century , there was a growing feeling that finds and monuments belonged to a past that ought to be recorded , and around 1585 William Camden wrote his book Brittania . |
| 10 | There was a man that used to that worked in the mill . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder if it 's a fire that ought to be ! ’ |