Example sentences of "a [noun] that had [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also fancied himself as an inventor — a pastime that had his mother caught between maternal pride and an almost uncontrollable urge to murder him . |
| 2 | Now , most people think that you were a fish wife because you were married to a fisherman that had nothing to do with it ! |
| 3 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 4 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 5 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 6 | Even though she moved freely in a world that had its dark and sordid side , she had stayed clean , too innately fastidious to be even faintly tempted . |
| 7 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 8 | And it had made him feel big in a way that had nothing to do with macho trappings . |
| 9 | We still consider that we are one of the top amateur installers in the country as we were only beaten by a chap that had his system professional installed , yes Mr Mega Bucks . |
| 10 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 11 | But this was an encounter that had none of the froth of those liaisons . |
| 12 | An invitation that had nothing to do with money , but owed more to sheep in a shelter on the other side of England . |