Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel the hard muscles of his body pressing against her side , his arm sheltering her in a way that made her trust him . |
| 2 | Something — that same gut instinct that made her get his address alerted her . |
| 3 | There was something in the quality of his quiet , confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them . |
| 4 | He curled his arm round Claudia 's waist , smiling at the receptionist in a way that made her assure him she would keep his secret . |
| 5 | But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself . |
| 6 | There was something in his voice that made her believe he was not speaking from malice himself . |
| 7 | It was n't really very bad but it was a dull ache that made her realise she would never get to sleep . |
| 8 | It was only her own hyped-up state that made her goad him . |
| 9 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 10 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |
| 11 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 12 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 13 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 14 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 15 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 16 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 18 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 19 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 20 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 21 | It was guilt that made him do it . |
| 22 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the clothes , you see , that made him think she was Egyptian . |
| 24 | ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 26 | It was only the sun , flashing briefly on her bleached hair , that made him shade his eyes and look again in that direction . |
| 27 | ( 167b ) * That made him have everything finished earlier , Cotte thus feels the same impression as that described above : antecedent vs concurrent causation . |
| 28 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
| 29 | I wanted to know what it was … what it was … that made everybody like you so much . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Actually , that was the first thing that made somebody show me something about Manson , when I was wondering who Jack Benny 's neighbours might have been . |