Example sentences of "that [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | or Anchises that laid hold of her flanks of air |
| 3 | Then she thought of the blackberrying and the melon , of the feathered hens that laid eggs , and of the church eagle of glinting metal that glowed like gold . |
| 4 | Cataclysmic first quarter figures from MIPS Computer Systems Inc — a loss of $12.7m on sales that plunged 46% to $23.7m underline how much the company needs rescuing by Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 5 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 6 | He drummed on the window with the flat of white , spectral hands — eyes turned to his left , in the direction of the glass doors , and filled with a fear and horror that paralysed Cardiff . |
| 7 | That was the question that haunted Merrill with a nagging sense of something left unfinished , unsatisfactory … |
| 8 | Thus , in many post–1923 paintings there is a heightened realism that borders on the photographic , as is evident in the large-format flower paintings she began to making in 1924. 18 By so changing the apparent concerns of her art , O'Keeffe intended to end criticism that centered speculations about the meaning of her imagery around the fact that she was a woman artist expressing emotions that had not visual precedents — which was , of course , the way Stieglitz had promoted her from the beginning . |
| 9 | The ‘ cod wars ’ that embroiled Iceland and the UK in the 1970s have been settled by generally accepted legislation . |
| 10 | Clarke and Ling ( 1976 ) studied only eight children and conclude that Cued Speech produces better performance than speech-reading . |
| 11 | Her findings indicate many difficulties with Cued Speech and her conclusions do not support the proposal that Cued Speech aids spoken language development : |
| 12 | The Solar Two project at Barstow , California , is a successor to a 10 MW power plant that ceased operations in 1988 . |
| 13 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
| 14 | It was a letter about her daily life , her family , her children and grandchildren , ‘ a precious human exchange ’ delicately penned by someone whom he had never met , from a country that he had hardly heard of , ‘ that became part of my flesh … a symbiosis developing between the correspondent and the prisoner ’ . |
| 15 | Exactly how much land the Arabs owned in the part of Palestine that became Israel is still disputed . |
| 16 | Although Resolution 242 affirmed the need for a just settlement of the refugee problem , few in the international arena believe that this will mean a return of refugees to the part of Palestine that became Israel . |
| 17 | When Captain Cook visited the nephrite zone of the South Island of New Zealand , the Maori described jade as a fish that became stone only when brought to land . |
| 18 | A determination to rein in the president also lay behind the Case Act that became law in 1972 . |
| 19 | I pose this question because anyone who skied before the days of highbacked boots ( up to the early 1970s ) will recall skis that became cult objects for their qualities in ‘ cheating powder ’ . |
| 20 | The encoded information shot out at her misted but still functional retina to form generic groupings that became words flitting across her mind . |
| 21 | Claude , the seventeenth-century French painter who spent much of his life in Italy , formulated a set of rules for landscape painting that became de rigueur . |
| 22 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 23 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 24 | Her mouth was being taken with a possessive intensity that obliterated thought and left only sensation . |
| 25 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 26 | The Poles constructed 200 kilometres of dockside railway and a new line from Gdynia to Bydgoszcz that avoided use ( and payment ) of the old German railway . |
| 27 | A transaction that conveyed title to readily marketable staples by endorsement of the bill of lading or warehouse receipt to the commercial , and subsequently to the central banker was encouraged . |
| 28 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 29 | It had been something in her breathing that conveyed impatience . |
| 30 | And people think more of you if you have nice things — as if you 'd once had a ‘ beautiful home ’ , ’ she gave the words a slightly scornful emphasis that made Ianthe feel uncomfortable . |