Example sentences of "[vb past] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 2 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 3 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 4 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 5 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 6 | There was an odd quality to the tone he used that sent her rushing in to speech . |
| 7 | When Paula used that tone it usually meant trouble . |
| 8 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 9 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 10 | He realized that accepting it as an office would have meant being pressed into staying late at night talking shop . |
| 11 | At the bar stood several men , well-dressed , hair slicked back , sharing the knowing sympathy of lions waiting until something passed that struck them as worth killing . |
| 12 | I 'm a descendant of the same family who owned that house we passed . ’ |
| 13 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 14 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 15 | Mohamed Ali was a ruthless figure who realised that to exploit his effective autonomy as ruler of Egypt , in the face of the growing power of Europe in particular , he would have to modernise his country . |
| 16 | But he admitted that clearing his name was going to be ‘ the hardest battle of my life ’ . |
| 17 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 18 | The restructuring school argued that to understand what was happening to the geography of British manufacturing at this time it was necessary to analyse this situation . |
| 19 | L.G. rather deprecated that saying he was not in love with it . |
| 20 | Anyone would think there was a law which stipulated that to call yourself a specialist in private medicine , you needed the necessary training and experience . |
| 21 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |
| 22 | Geneticists estimated that had they not selected for mastitis resistance the national incidence would have increased by 1.5% over that period . |
| 23 | What really happened that deranged you ? |
| 24 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 25 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 26 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 27 | He acknowledged that addressing our Conference was an historic moment . |
| 28 | In the group discussions , many men claimed that turning their partner on was the exciting part of sex . |
| 29 | Twice , she opened her mouth to yell Pascoe 's name , but reasoned that to call him would n't bring him any faster , and might well distract him . |
| 30 | Cos she reckoned that cured it . |