Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 3 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 4 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 5 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 6 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 7 | She was small with coarse , wire-wool hair and bright bird 's eyes that missed nothing . |
| 8 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 9 | Had that been a spider 's web that touched her cheek just now ? |
| 10 | His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm — fond of Travis — very fond , ’ she stated , then caught the dangerous glint in her employer 's eye that assured her that her prevarication was n't going down too well . |
| 12 | It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina . |
| 13 | Warhurst was allowed home from hospital yesterday after the clash with Spora 's keeper that knocked him out and almost cost him his life . |
| 14 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was the title of Kate 's paper that befuddled their senses — The Nightmare of Ramsay Street ; Neighbours and sub-cultural imagination . |
| 16 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 17 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 18 | The grooms at his home in Princes Risborough , believe it was Sefton 's spirit that pulled him through . |
| 19 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 20 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been suggested to me that there was some episode in Nona 's life that disturbed her , greatly disturbed her . |
| 22 | It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly . |
| 23 | Every day this week you can collect pictures of the Grand Prix victories that made him king . |
| 24 | And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly . |
| 25 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 27 | For it was Ven 's voice that answered her ! |
| 28 | So it was n't the sexual aspect of Helena 's affair that interested him but its romantic side . |
| 29 | But although she moans , it was Michelle Pfeiffer 's looks that led her out of a dead-end job as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket in El Toro , California . |
| 30 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |