Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 32 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 33 | The tigers that lived in these different places gradually developed into a number of different races . |
| 34 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 35 | This list of requirements might well succeed in eliminating all our ideas ; in practice we would be satisfied if two or three of these demands were catered for but very unhappy with a unit that failed on all nine aspects . |
| 36 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 37 | The walls were covered with a riot of colourful designs , patterns that swirled like those on a headster-time blouson . |
| 38 | ‘ And it came to pass , that when the sun went down , and it was dark , behold a smoking furnace , and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces ’ ; and Abraham in his dream heard that his seed would rule over ‘ the Kenites , and the Kenizzites , and the Kadmonites , and the Hittites , and the Perizzites , and the Rephaims , and the Amorites , and the Canaanites , and the Girgashites , and the Jebusites . ’ |
| 39 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 40 | But beneath it all , beneath the strange rituals that passed in this milieu for normality , there was an undercurrent of fear , of latent panic . |
| 41 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 42 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 43 | What is sad is that caught in this way , they are unable to see or use the opportunities for life-fulfilling experiences spread out before them . |
| 44 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 45 | The case has echoes of the row that erupted in this country over The Krays movie . |
| 46 | It did not seem to be the man or his capacities that changed in these cases , so much as the needs and expectations of his followers , organizations , and markets . |
| 47 | What were the factors that contributed to this disintegration — was it ‘ law ’ or did other factors play a role ? |
| 48 | The cheerful noise that emanated from that hall would n't have left any German in doubt that these recruits were all united against a common enemy . |
| 49 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 50 | He had never been quite able to forget my father , Mr Charles told me , owing to an incident that occurred during that visit . |
| 51 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 52 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 53 | Here were the scars that healed with such unnatural speed . |
| 54 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 55 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 56 | He stands in the hall , shaking his head , as if he himself is a Rottweiler that crashed through some glass . |
| 57 | She revealed how , since that fateful day , her life had not been worth living … the loneliness , the bitter regrets and the lingering shame that rose above all else . |
| 58 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 59 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 60 | Originally , most English vineyards contained the dull Müller-Thurgau grape , produced years ago by cropping the classic but late-ripening Riesling with the workhorse Sylvaner to produce a grape that appealed to few drinkers . |