Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the fact that you needed to be told that made telling you impossible . ’ |
| 2 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 3 | It was fourteen days since the force had crossed the Tweed , eluded the levies that rode to intercept it , and roved south towards Newcastle , pillaging and burning what was left of the standing crops . |
| 4 | STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him . |
| 5 | The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West . |
| 6 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 7 | Its troubles begin with the regulators and public that helped to create it . |
| 8 | Do you think that helped to decide you to go into lock making ? |
| 9 | ‘ I have always been determined and I think that helped to get me through . ’ |
| 10 | The factors that helped to build them will be examined further in the next two chapters by looking at the forces that influence the making and implementation of social policy . |
| 11 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 12 | Maybe it was the flat calm , almost dead timbre of her voice that helped convince him , because a heavy frown made him look angry . |
| 13 | There was something in their depths that seemed to devour her — and her own eyes , she feared , revealed the torment of her soul . |
| 14 | When they were in their room together they agreed that Sister Dew was ‘ a bit of a trial ’ and that seemed to draw them together . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was recovering from the loss of some great love — that at least made sense of the aimlessness that seemed to characterise him . |
| 16 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 17 | Very quietly he said with a pride and authority that seemed to surprise them , ‘ I am of Wrath and have much to learn . |
| 18 | There was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to affect her , although for the life of her she could n't understand what it was . |
| 19 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 20 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 21 | But although he could see areas of hewn stonework that seemed to close him in , and although he could certainly see barred windows through which light streamed , there were no gaolers , and there were no other prisoners . |
| 22 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 23 | Then she let out a scream that seemed to lift her right up into the air and she dropped the plate with a crash and a splash onto the floor . |
| 24 | Juliet hurried away , but she could n't stop the warm glow that seemed to fill her . |
| 25 | It was trying to love myself , the starting point of it all , that seemed to lead me in so many strange directions . |
| 26 | Yet the sound that dinned most irritatingly into Marian 's mind was the calling of the cuckoo that seemed to follow them , now near , now far , throughout the day . |
| 27 | What was it about him that seemed to knock her off balance this way , making her act so strangely out of character ? |
| 28 | The voice came distantly , accompanied by an echo that seemed to rob it of identity . |
| 29 | They scarcely knew each other , after all — despite the mysterious chemistry that seemed to pull them together . |
| 30 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |