Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 36 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 37 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 38 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 39 | There was something in his voice that made her open her eyes . |
| 40 | On Clarissa 's part , because she kept putting off the dreaded bread and butter telephone call , and that made her feel guilty and irritable . |
| 41 | But it was Susannah 's passionate appeal to the girls to support her party because she believes the Liberal Democrats care about the homeless that made her the winner . |
| 42 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 43 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 44 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 45 | Bravely , she shut her mind as firmly as she could against the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows cast by great trees or trod across soggy glades that made her think with a shudder of hidden bogs . |
| 46 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 47 | It was this certainty that made her the leader . |
| 48 | Sarah had produced a child by another man , and that made her a loose woman . |
| 49 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 50 | My mother would visit on Speech Day and Sports Day , wearing a Jaeger-style home-made camel coat and a pillbox hat , or her green velvet coat that made her look , I thought , like the Queen . |
| 51 | Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince . |
| 52 | This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me . |
| 53 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Her eyes were a startling violet colour that made her look incredibly strong-minded . |
| 56 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 57 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 58 | Here she was , sounding , even to her own ears , like a puritanical Swiss burgher , imposing a moral code on Sylvie that had never been hers ; forcing her into a mould which was alien to everything that made her Sylvie . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | This was the time she enjoyed most ; when she could relax in the cosy drawing room , with its pale green walls and deep floral armchairs , and with the cheery fire-glow sending out waves of warmth that made her deliciously sleepy . |