Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was the memory of the sparkling waters of Tenerife that helped her with her imaging , and her joy in at last succeeding in that therapy was immense and infectious .
2 Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy .
3 In the end , it was geography ( in the form of the river Loire ) and Joan of Arc that saved them .
4 Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd .
5 London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed .
6 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
7 Nicky was half aware of the Mercedes that approached them , and a moment later he screeched his warning to Lou , watching frozen , and horrified , as the great car drove up onto the pavement and bore down upon them .
8 He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition .
9 Not even Europe 's governing body knows exactly what happened in a Russian League game involving Dinamo Moscow that earned him such a heavy punishment .
10 Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use .
11 There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy .
12 And where else on earth would a through train from Glasgow to Mallaig unhitch the guard 's van at Fort William that contained your bike , without breaking the news to you until Lochailort ?
13 DR WHO is dead , but it was not the Daleks that got him , it was his own sexism .
14 It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt .
15 ‘ I was young and hot then ’ , she says , talking of her dancing days in LA , and later in the famous European tour of the 1950s of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess that took her to La Scala .
16 ‘ It was really Corsham that did it , ’ my mother said .
17 JOHN UZZELL is entitled to feel bitter about the elbow in the face from Gary Blissett that ended his career .
18 They are very pretty , but somewhat ludicrously sentimental ; that is , when one reflects that it was Rousseau that wrote them .
19 The Orc Warlord that led them was Azhag the Slaughterer , and under his command were tribes of Orcs and Goblins from the highlands around Red Eye Mountain .
20 And it finds an echo in the chapter of Isaiah that formed our first lesson ; the word ‘ peace ’ is n't actually used , but the picture of deliverance has a thread of divine peace running all the way through it .
21 Well she I think it was Karen that did something for Children in Need last year and she sang on the air .
22 This emphasis seems intended to correct earlier approaches to Lam that found him influenced by Matisse , Picasso , Breton , and Miró , an exotic Third World modernist satellite rather than a major creative force .
23 Put it this way : it could be the new , reformulated Coca-Cola that almost destroyed a franchise , or the crystal clear Pepsi that created one .
24 That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed .
25 As I remember , it was Pete that started it ,
26 And it was only the brave pleading of hostage Barbara Brady that persuaded him to hand the ammunition over , the Old Bailey was told .
27 And this bloke called Haigh that sent his clothes in to the model-maker so 's they would n't have the trouble of faking them .
28 Like several other drivers , they spun almost in unison , but it was the Nissan that made it back to the pits first .
29 Above all it was the thought of Lily that tortured me I had promised to write every day .
30 It was no coicidence that he and Robson played a great part in the win over Oldham that ended our lean spell .
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