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

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1 For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony .
2 The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it .
3 Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on .
4 She felt certain that he intended her no harm and her fear began to recede , its place taken by a surge of excitement and anticipation .
5 Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’
6 But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology .
7 Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away .
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