Example sentences of "something that have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 2 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 3 | But she was hollow , not with dislike for him but with indifference , a faint and empty sickness , something that had gone away . |
| 4 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 5 | As Gabriel was watching , the cart stopped at the top of the hill , and the driver climbed down to go back and fetch something that had fallen off . |
| 6 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 7 | Jazz shook his head so that the hair fell down over his face like a curtain and sat looking like something that had escaped from the zoo , still heaving from his exertions . |
| 8 | It was something that had puzzled him during all his years at Court , and it was something that had stayed with him . |
| 9 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 10 | Something that had grown from it . |
| 11 | I took the step ; something that had nagged me ever since ; I had discovered he had studied medicine ; and also to shock his mocking of my fatalism . |
| 12 | It was , so to speak , not something that had to happen . |
| 13 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 14 | She had never really forgotten any of it , of course , how could she forget something that had consumed her so completely , even if it had lasted such a short time ? |
| 15 | Something that had caused her to use the phrase ‘ turn you on ’ several times , which was uncharacteristic . |
| 16 | It was something that had puzzled him during all his years at Court , and it was something that had stayed with him . |
| 17 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 18 | Fen was much taller and broader and his swarthy colouring was not something that had appealed to her hitherto . |
| 19 | I was by then realizing something that had eluded me before , about the fleeing nymphs . |
| 20 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 21 | There was a very long story about him and Donald in the Rose and Thorn , a short , rather vulgar anecdote about something that had happened to Donald 's wife while crossing Wimbledon Common and a boastful piece about how he , Henry , had amused some French sailors in the bar at the Mini Golf , Boulogne sur Mer . |
| 22 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 23 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 24 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 25 | Is the attendance at professional conferences something that 's earmarked , or is it just |
| 26 | Which is another point , really , that people I find even if they appeal for witnesses about something that 's gone wrong , people are very hesitant , the majority of people in the community are frightened of being witnesses , |
| 27 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 28 | Erm er I mean er technically it should be something that 's done centrally . |
| 29 | Cos then it 's something that 's done him good and it 's learnt him to talk cos he 's had Thomas erm |
| 30 | You give me something that 's made Kazie ? |