Example sentences of "that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 32 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 33 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 34 | They also include species that eat their way through enormous quantities of sediment , extracting edible particles from it , and in the process reprocessing all the sediment ; some of the fossil heart urchins probably had this habit ( see p. 128 ) . |
| 35 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 36 | It would , note , generally fall not on the individual household , but on whichever public authority is responsible for waste collection — and thus on local taxpayers — and on companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump . |
| 37 | ‘ Maybe his boats unload there , the ones that bring his mags in , ’ Hitch offered . |
| 38 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 39 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 40 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 41 | It was this particular feature that made its isolation so difficult , for it is impossible to grow chlamydia on the normal media used for bacteria , since they do not contain living cells . |
| 42 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 43 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 44 | But it was a tense trio that made its way back to Surrey . |
| 45 | Mr Cliburn , who was born in Shreveport , Louisiana , into a family that made its pile from oil , has been able to retire to a vast mansion . |
| 46 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 47 | The eventual acceptance of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes by their respective disciplines indicates the value orientations that made their interpretation possible . |
| 48 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |
| 49 | Everywhere there was a reek of something acrid that made their eyes smart . |
| 50 | ALTHOUGH MANY former RAF Chedburgh , Suffolk , personnel have had cause to return to their old Station , at least 398 have had that choice denied them — although it was their sacrifice that made their colleague 's choice possible . |
| 51 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 52 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 53 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 54 | Charles was compelled to break some news to Clarissa that made her droop still more . |
| 55 | Freya 's story is unusual in some ways , in that unlike Alison Freya started off , as she says , quite happy with her body ; it was the reaction of other people that made her uncertain . |
| 56 | He cuddled her and felt the bump in a way that made her uneasy as to the propriety of it and asked constantly how this baby was to climb out . |
| 57 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 58 | If it was a shock that made her quiet , it 'll be a shock 'll bring her round again . ’ |
| 59 | She was about to turn and go back when she saw something that made her stop and purse her lips disapprovingly . |
| 60 | It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly . |