Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 5 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 6 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 7 | Blue eyes that made it hard to look away . |
| 8 | There was a silence , which told him he 'd scored a bull's-eye , and then an over-bright tone in her reply that confirmed it . |
| 9 | What is true is that the effects of a mutation on the form of the resulting organism can not be predicted from a knowledge of the agent that produced it . |
| 10 | Dostoevsky 's home-made word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment ; it has been left behind ( unlike the mind that coined it ) in the much more theoretical Notes from Underground . |
| 11 | If we can not really be sure about the way this Christianization of the urban population was brought about , we can , however , discern some of the anxieties that accompanied it . |
| 12 | The terms of the agreement are determined by the parties that concluded it ( in Upper Silesia the Allies ) , and not by the subsequently emergent State . |
| 13 | The original documentation similarly remains with the original department that created it . |
| 14 | And I was deeply shocked at the unanimous vote that brought it about . |
| 15 | Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor . |
| 16 | Winter had closed the eyelids of the land and the snow that covered it was ill-fitting and dingy like a second-hand shroud . |
| 17 | She liked the words that described it : spotless , pure , immaculate . |
| 18 | The shark , which attacked the man as he swam in a bay north of Sydney on his honeymoon , rammed the fishing boat that netted it yesterday and disgorged John Ford was grabbed by the 16ft shark as he was diving east of Byron Bay , 370 miles north of Sydney , police said . |
| 19 | Forester set the canvas roll down on the ground and undid the tape that bound it up . |
| 20 | ‘ It was that advert that did it , I think . |
| 21 | Although the 1978 policy paper was never published , its main features were incorporated in the manifesto , and the supplementary briefing that accompanied it , for the General Election which came in May of the following year . |
| 22 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 23 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 24 | In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline . |
| 25 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 26 | Nevertheless its three principal currents — Alfonsine monarchism , Carlism and undisguised fascism — were in the long run to play an important role in the destruction of Spanish democracy and the creation of the dictatorship that replaced it . |
| 27 | Victorine stared at her reflection held in the ornate frame of the mirror over the fireplace while her fingers dusted the china vases that flanked it . |
| 28 | It is certainly amongst the oldest of the European herbs , and it was its very pungency that made it popular with the palates of our tougher ancestors . |
| 29 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't even remember the name of the horse that won it for me in Italy , but I will always have a special spot for Nicer , ’ he said . |