Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 2 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 3 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 4 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 5 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 6 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 7 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 8 | Everything that had happened up in the wood had put it out of his head . |
| 9 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 10 | The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible . |