Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 2 | If it was a shock that made her quiet , it 'll be a shock 'll bring her round again . ’ |
| 3 | It was a mark that controlled his life . |
| 4 | With his hair slicked wetly back and his shirt cast casually over one tanned shoulder , leaving his impressively muscular torso bare , he was a vision that turned her mouth into a desert . |
| 5 | This was a subject that embarrassed him sorely . |
| 6 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 7 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 8 | It was a thought that made her breathing grow even shorter , and blackness was on her , and everything disappeared , to reappear a few moments later . |
| 9 | And he wanted , he was a man that knew what he was doing . |
| 10 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 11 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 12 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |
| 13 | It was a woman that it was a woman that did it . |
| 14 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 15 | To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him . |
| 16 | It was a move that sealed him in Mrs O'Neill 's affections : he now brought her free ice-cream as well as the traditional Rocky Road . |
| 17 | ( It was a pattern that repeated itself , and Helen oft en recognized its therapeutic value for herself and Edward at moments of difficulty throughout their married life . ) |
| 18 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 19 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 20 | It was a command that made her even more resentful . |
| 21 | It was a protest that gained her a derisive smile . |
| 22 | It was a gesture that touched her , and as she walked away along the fragrant walkway towards the road up to Rosie 's villa she looked at her fingers in the moonlight , and found herself smiling . |
| 23 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
| 24 | He did not look up until he was right down in the station ; and it was a sound that made him look up . |
| 25 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |
| 26 | Back home , it was a sound that meant something . |
| 27 | This was a world that shunned her . |
| 28 | It was a combination that destroyed his ability to cope with life , and he sought psychiatric help in 1950 . |