Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its joints and spring the links that pegged it down |
| 2 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 3 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 4 | Vibrant with exercise , alone , firmly pushing aside all thought that oppressed her , she sat and watched the sea , while the salty air buffeted softly against her cheeks and the gulls wheeled overhead , slightly paler than the pale sky . |
| 5 | Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within . |
| 6 | They could hear the rasp of his breath as he tossed his head against the cloud of flies that haloed it . |
| 7 | She forgot about the coarse sheet that grazed her back . |
| 8 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
| 9 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 10 | He struggled against the nightmare grip that paralysed him . |
| 11 | Or was it just fear that paralysed her , like a frightened rabbit ? |
| 12 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 13 | To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him . |
| 14 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 15 | It was the tears that haunted him . |
| 16 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 17 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 18 | But when I was at Dacre , in spite of all the painful memories — Theda , it was your face that haunted me , not my mother 's ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 22 | There was something in his voice that made her open her eyes . |
| 23 | On Clarissa 's part , because she kept putting off the dreaded bread and butter telephone call , and that made her feel guilty and irritable . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 26 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 27 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was this certainty that made her the leader . |