Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A buffeting wind rushed over the land , bringing with it salt that clung insistently to Elisabeth 's face . |
| 2 | Dressed in a plaid shirt and faded jeans that clung lovingly to his muscular thighs , he was leaning against the door-jamb with his usual easy animal grace , and she was forced to swallow hard against a rush of desire that totally unnerved her . |
| 3 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 4 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 5 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 6 | Firstly , that the acid test whether or not benefit is collateral is that laid down by Best J , namely " Is the covenant beneficial to the owner for the time being of the covenantee 's land , and to no one else ? " |
| 7 | And that laid there bottoms up when Mr Collyer come up with his throshing tackle at night , and he say : |
| 8 | At Leeds , for example , the grid of streets between the present railway station and the significantly named The Headrow , though now much mutilated by modern development , is still that laid out by Maurice de Paynel in the early thirteenth century . |
| 9 | But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface . |
| 10 | Very little is known historically about Roland , but his fame lives on in the Chanson de Roland and legends that arose not long after his heroic death . |
| 11 | Will the Secretary of State explain to the House the confusion that arose yesterday following the Prime Minister 's statement on the United Nations meeting ? |
| 12 | The tensions and conflicts that arose out of Italy 's struggle for unification were paralleled in the art of the nineteenth-century by the antagonism between Romanticism and Realism . |
| 13 | Well I think people think that a certain amount of time and attention has to be devoted to the Party 's constitution , and there are two things that arose out of the conference in Brighton . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that there were two types of variations that I wished to explore , and there were a number of different methods that I would have to employ to resolve some of the problems that arose once I started to ask questions about these variations . |
| 15 | Firstly , we were able to pinpoint a particular problem that arose only in the context of a complete system . |
| 16 | And the vigorous , life-enhancing breakers that plunged inland , that might have deposited her on soft , rich , regenerative soil , were involved in a never-consummated effort , frustrated by the moon . |
| 17 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |
| 18 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 19 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 20 | However , the Junkers , military , civil service and politicians chose to react to the Polish uprisings of 1830 , 1846 , 1848 , 1863 and 1905 — which took place in the Russian and Austrian sectors — by seeing , not a social and political movement that harked back to French revolutionary practice , and which aimed only in part at the restoration of the Polish state , but a Polish threat to Prussian and German identity . |
| 21 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 22 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 23 | The first sounds heard by ground troops approaching Verdun reminded them of ‘ a gigantic forge that ceased neither day nor night ’ . |
| 24 | Without further ado , he slipped around the corner , and rushed towards the gangplank , ignoring the shots that zipped past . |
| 25 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 26 | As we crossed ground that became increasingly boggy , the vegetation increasingly salt-spattered and sparse , Tony began to enthuse on the likelihood of our seeing geese and red-necked phalaropes . |
| 27 | One group , the art college or trendy mods , developed a style of dress that became increasingly resplendent , while the other group , the hard mods , or the gang mods , developed into the skinheads . |
| 28 | However , post-war industrialisation and the alarming rate of scientific and technological progress ( particularly the discovery and use of atomic weapons ) created a shift in public opinion that became increasingly evident during the 1950s and 60s , and culminated in the formation of various national and international groups dedicated to campaigning on behalf of the environment . |
| 29 | Monsieur de Levantiére smiled benignly , thrilled at the unique combination of willingness , reliability and intelligence that became increasingly apparent in his protege . |
| 30 | Edward III 's orchestration of support for the war was skilful and successful , yet fundamentally he depended on the co-operation of the nobility , who recruited and led the contract armies that became increasingly important as the war continued . |