Example sentences of "a [noun] that [vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 2 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 3 | If conservatives could hold the line , they stood a chance of enacting a settlement that suited them . |
| 4 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 5 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 6 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 7 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 8 | From the opening , during the cold New York winter of 1967 , the queues extending round the block outside Manhattan cinemas consisted mostly of young people hugging themselves and each other , and stamping their feet to keep warm , full of the expectation of seeing a movie that addressed them and their problems . |
| 9 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 10 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 11 | Only through Cunhaval was she aware of life in the forest and it was not a life-form that encouraged them to slow down and set a trap . |
| 12 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 13 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 14 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 15 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 16 | She kneaded at his chest in an agony of rapture before clinging , nails biting into him as he drove deeper , striking into the heart of her desire with a passion that convulsed them both and hurtled them to a zenith of sensation stunning in its ferocity . |
| 17 | The task , assigned to humanity by God , was that of transforming , by chemical means , the raw products of nature into a state that made them serviceable . |
| 18 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 19 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 20 | Finally , she abandoned herself to him once again , the moonlight playing on their bodies as they loved each other with a strength that surprised them both . |
| 21 | ‘ You looked beautiful , ’ he said after a pause that agonized them both . |
| 22 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 23 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 24 | As the host of an all-night radio show , Shepard would commune with his insomniac listeners in a way that assured them that they , the ‘ night people ’ , were the ones really in tune with life . |
| 25 | Especially in New York , few bosses would favour a merger that left them as number two . |
| 26 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 27 | When the nurses — who , to encourage morale , insisted that every patient , however ill , should wash — came to help her , she submitted with an indifference that alarmed them . |
| 28 | Across the warm , sun-filled expanse of wilderness their eyes met with an impact that held them both motionless . |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't live with myself if I sent someone on their way with an outfit that made them look awful . ’ |
| 30 | Rain dragged Barbara Coleman away , with an urgency that took them both off balance . |