Example sentences of "that [vb past] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bobby Robson was there to assess World Cup candidates , but nothing positive emerged from 90 minutes of scuffling that made one almost yearn for the more measured boredom of Rangers ' European Cup exit in Munich three days earlier . |
| 4 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |
| 5 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 6 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 7 | There was a power in him , a suppressed vigour that made everything he did one hundred per cent positive . |
| 8 | Now , as his mouth covered hers and his hands slid down to cup her breasts and tease the nipples into eager life , she felt again the power and the passion that made everything right . |
| 9 | I wanted to know what it was … what it was … that made everybody like you so much . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Actually , that was the first thing that made somebody show me something about Manson , when I was wondering who Jack Benny 's neighbours might have been . |
| 12 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 13 | He also came kitted out with his very own soundtrack theme , a funk-filled affair crafted by Isaac Hayes , that made everyone aware of his presence . |
| 14 | He 'd loll in his chair as he was doing then , and suddenly come out with some remark that made everyone else uncomfortable . |
| 15 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 16 | They can be prey to several diseases at once , a possibility that led one to describe himself as ‘ a walking time bomb ’ . |
| 17 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |
| 18 | At the office I put in a call to Connors that produced nothing . |
| 19 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 20 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 21 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 22 | Put it this way : it could be the new , reformulated Coca-Cola that almost destroyed a franchise , or the crystal clear Pepsi that created one . |
| 23 | See it 's the war that changed everything did n't it . |
| 24 | It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour . |
| 25 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 26 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 27 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 28 | A perfectly fitting suit or a daring tie could give a man that added something , revealing the competence which he knows in his heart he has already . |
| 29 | Use of many of these products is sound practice , and it would be a poor ‘ expert ’ indeed that advised anyone to run a modern aquatic system without filtration of some kind or another . |
| 30 | Nope , the thing that drove everyone wild was the music . |