Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 its joints and spring the links that pegged it down
2 I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard .
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 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 .
5 The state monopoly of television in a country that prided itself on its tradition of freedom and pluralism of the means of expression — failed .
6 And now it was n't the threat of being lasered in half that knotted her stomach : it was the inevitability of the sense of failure , of letting down her team , that would follow a muffed throw .
7 Homeland of the Nez Perce and the neighbouring tribes of the Shahaptian ( H ) and Salish ( A ) families that shared their Plateau culture .
8 There was this story about er the wife that shared their milk with butter .
9 The new Commonwealth declared itself open to other Soviet republics , as well as to states elsewhere that shared its objectives , and on 21 December in Alma Ata a further agreement was signed by the three original members and eight other republics : Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizia , Moldavia , Tajikistan , Turkmenia and Uzbekistan .
10 The Consortium agreed to attract into membership all bodies that shared its objectives .
11 But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer .
12 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 .
13 Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within .
14 The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person .
15 They could hear the rasp of his breath as he tossed his head against the cloud of flies that haloed it .
16 She forgot about the coarse sheet that grazed her back .
17 Midnight turned gently from a blow that grazed his ribs and brought his right fist down , short and deadly , on to the side of the stubbled jaw .
18 Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy .
19 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 .
20 He struggled against the nightmare grip that paralysed him .
21 Or was it just fear that paralysed her , like a frightened rabbit ?
22 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 .
23 To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him .
24 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 .
25 It was the tears that haunted him .
26 During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants .
27 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 .
28 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 !
29 Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind .
30 But he was a bisexual , and his sexuality was something that coloured his life to a great extent and , along with a chronic alcohol problem , contributed to his decline .
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