Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Homeland of the Nez Perce and the neighbouring tribes of the Shahaptian ( H ) and Salish ( A ) families that shared their Plateau culture . |
| 4 | There was this story about er the wife that shared their milk with butter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Consortium agreed to attract into membership all bodies that shared its objectives . |
| 7 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 16 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 17 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 18 | It was this particular feature that made its isolation so difficult , for it is impossible to grow chlamydia on the normal media used for bacteria , since they do not contain living cells . |
| 19 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 20 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 21 | But it was a tense trio that made its way back to Surrey . |
| 22 | Mr Cliburn , who was born in Shreveport , Louisiana , into a family that made its pile from oil , has been able to retire to a vast mansion . |
| 23 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 24 | The eventual acceptance of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes by their respective disciplines indicates the value orientations that made their interpretation possible . |
| 25 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |
| 26 | Everywhere there was a reek of something acrid that made their eyes smart . |
| 27 | ALTHOUGH MANY former RAF Chedburgh , Suffolk , personnel have had cause to return to their old Station , at least 398 have had that choice denied them — although it was their sacrifice that made their colleague 's choice possible . |
| 28 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 29 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 30 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |