Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting .
2 Sarah had produced a child by another man , and that made her a loose woman .
3 Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’
4 He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail .
5 Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 .
6 It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life .
7 The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish .
8 But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago .
9 It is necessary to examine the idea of coalitionism and the political forces that made it a powerful alternative before considering its direct impact on the Unionist party .
10 The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death .
11 AND ALL THAT made it a busy year for Autocar & Motor .
12 She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own .
13 I 'd like to put forward the argument that it was by trying to accomodate Cuntona , Wallace and Chappie together at the start of last season that made us a soft touch away from home .
14 It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership .
15 There was something raw about him ; his body sweated to its essence , his face betraying a hunger behind its symmetry that lent him a bedevilled look .
16 It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later .
17 During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance .
18 Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose .
19 Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go .
20 DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 .
21 He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life .
22 What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related .
23 The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow .
24 A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’
25 He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect .
26 And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way .
27 ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’
28 DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa .
29 And it 's earning the chocolate-coloured Labrador that wrote it a worldwide reputation .
30 It was a protest that gained her a derisive smile .
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