Example sentences of "that [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked to select all the objects in an array that shared a particular attribute and to name the attribute , these children could provide an answer but the grammatical form revealed , according to Greenfield , inferior cognitive facility . |
| 2 | In the beargardens that became a feature of almost every major kite flying meeting , a parade of well-dressed bears took on the role of chairbears , observing in silence the antics of crazy ‘ humes ’ as they lounged in their designer suits , awaiting the call to elevation . |
| 3 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 4 | With Otto Schott 's glass that became a thing of the past . |
| 5 | As Vince Aletti , premier prophet of the scene , once wrote : ‘ Disco fetishised the break — the instrumental change that became a song 's pivot and peak — so records opened up to accommodate extended passages , musical movements that washed through the dancefloor like waves . |
| 6 | Having thundered 116 from 109 balls against West Indies last year , he had a ball against the Pakistanis , threatening a twist to a predictable tale with 74 off 44 balls in a one day warm-up that became a tad too hot to handle . |
| 7 | It was like listening to a voice whispering across time , an eerie sensation that became a frisson when I read : Time was , Time is , and Time shall be , but here the Adept stands outside of time within the penetralium of mystery . |
| 8 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 9 | He was dressed in a red coat , cut-away from chest to knee , with long yellow lapels that became a cape collar . |
| 10 | There is also Hitsville , the Motown museum , housed in the tiny two-storey house that became a 60s legend . |
| 11 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 12 | The tank that became a bomb . |
| 13 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |
| 14 | It is a story of courage and of improvisation that made a nonsense of the enemy 's numerical and material superiority . |
| 15 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 16 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 17 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 18 | In chapter four below , there will be an examination of her poetry to demonstrate what sorts of books Leapor read , and especially those that made a strong impact on her work . |
| 19 | And yet this is the kind of thing that made a fortune for Dr Tarnower and is , in its way , replicated in all diet books : this mixture of ruthlessness , optimism and fatuity . |
| 20 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 21 | As she hurried over the rough track that made a short cut between her aunt 's cottage and the farmhouse where Angela lived , Cheryl 's eye was caught by a splash of colour on the far side of the field . |
| 22 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 23 | Nor the samples that the postman has kindly left on the doorstep these last few years , thereby avoiding the abuse I was wont to hurl from the bedroom window at anything that made a noise before 8.30am . |
| 24 | Emil beckoned me towards the kitchen end , and I went up there into the small lobby with a serving counter , a space that made a needed gap between the hot glittering galley and the actual dining area . |
| 25 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 26 | The air was fresh and sweet , the river swept along on its way , swelled by the backwash that made a tiny waterfall further along . |
| 27 | Powered by roller skates , many of these locomotive dancers were whirling corrugated plastic tubes that made a wooo-wooo sound . |
| 28 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 29 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 30 | We could clean swiftly and efficiently by now , and knew the special little ways that made a lavatory really white , or a tiled floor that bit more gleaming . |