Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 2 | The Ancient Greeks had a word , ‘ hubris ’ , to refer to any human action that over-reached itself — of the kind that the Greeks regarded as an offence against the gods . |
| 3 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 4 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 5 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 6 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 7 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
| 8 | Other stands that caught my eye on my tour were Johnny van Haeften 's very fine paintings , Wartski 's exquisite objets d'arts , David Messum 's fine painting , Bernheimer Fine Arts , and Garrard the Crown Jewellers ' silver . |
| 9 | Roman shot her a glance that told her nothing of what he was thinking . |
| 10 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 11 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 12 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 13 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 14 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 15 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 16 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 17 | Wild exultation at having him so close made sure her momentary pain was no more than that , as he slipped easily into the rhythm that had her half sobbing with delight until his voice joined her own . |
| 18 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 19 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 20 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 21 | He felt subtly in touch with higher forces , as though he had become the Tarot card that represented him . |
| 22 | He gave me an orange card that advertised his status as PROFESSIONAL SURFER. but he was still a child at heart and surfing was still a game . |
| 23 | So we were better being turned down until we found a deal that suited us better . ’ |
| 24 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 25 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 26 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 27 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 28 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 29 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 30 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |