Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 2 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 3 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 5 | She said it was highly possible that had he received a blood transfusion his life might have been saved . |
| 6 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 7 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 8 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
| 9 | Jenna was surprised how gloomy that made her feel . |
| 10 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 11 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 13 | I believe it was the fact that the preaching was truly expository that hooked him . |
| 14 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 15 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 16 | There was continuous driving rain , and a cold that numbed me . |
| 17 | And it was n't self-pity that kept her tossing and turning till dawn … |
| 18 | Frederick Bissett was a member of the Institute of Professional Scientists , and a fat lot of good that did him . |
| 19 | ‘ And look what a power of good that did us all . ’ |
| 20 | It was being made to feel redundant that brought her to a standstill . |
| 21 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 22 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 23 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 24 | The crucifixion of Jesus was no naive rejection of the reality of evil , but a confrontation with evil that destroyed it . |
| 25 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 26 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 27 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 28 | There are two springs in particular that interested them , 200 kilometres north-east of Calcutta and some 30 kilometres apart near Shantiniketan where the Indian poet Tagore lived . |
| 29 | I think it 's the walking that did it , I do n't know |
| 30 | But it was Susannah 's passionate appeal to the girls to support her party because she believes the Liberal Democrats care about the homeless that made her the winner . |