Example sentences of "that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its joints and spring the links that pegged it down |
| 2 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 3 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 4 | Although he wanted a physical astronomy that would deal with real motions , there were too many ‘ great inconveniences ’ in a system that saddled the earth with three separate motions : an orbital revolution , an axial rotation , and a change in the orientation of the axis itself . |
| 5 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 6 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 7 | The baby clawed to be free of his mother and pressed to the brooches that studded Alexandra 's bosom and Robert , commonly bright-eyed with aggression , stood scarlet and speechless in a stupor of admiration and wonder . |
| 8 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 9 | A buffeting wind rushed over the land , bringing with it salt that clung insistently to Elisabeth 's face . |
| 10 | It was not an animal you 'd care to tangle with , not even for the sake of the high-k meat that clung to its bones , not while rats were smaller and had less impressive jaws and could , besides , be sold to the lower-Level kind for a bounty of six minims per head , not to mention what their meat and skin would fetch . |
| 11 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 12 | I detached her gently from her twig and she writhed in anger , exposing her paler stomach and all her spiky little paws that clung leechlike to the branch to which I returned her . |
| 13 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 14 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 15 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 16 | It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth , flawless skin . |
| 17 | She wanted to apply it to her newly grown hips and breasts , to pare off , with quick disgusted flicks of her wrist , the fat that clung to her . |
| 18 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 19 | Dressed in a plaid shirt and faded jeans that clung lovingly to his muscular thighs , he was leaning against the door-jamb with his usual easy animal grace , and she was forced to swallow hard against a rush of desire that totally unnerved her . |
| 20 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 21 | One , with curling chestnut hair , was five foot ten , and thin , and wore long-legged swimming shorts that clung to him like skin in jagged gold and emerald . |
| 22 | She had tangled brown hair , a small and lively face , a dress of dark red material that clung to her . |
| 23 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 24 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 25 | Caroline concentrated on a spot on the wall while Fabbiano , kneeling on the floor before her , whisked a needle and thread through the hem of the scarlet silk dress that clung to her like a second skin . |
| 26 | To call the bit of silk that clung to her body a dress was ridiculous . |
| 27 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 28 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 29 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 30 | or Anchises that laid hold of her flanks of air |