Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm . |
| 2 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 3 | The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 . |
| 4 | We knew what lay down any other road : a political scandal that made it worthwhile for Parliament to get involved in Security . |
| 5 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 6 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 7 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 8 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 9 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 10 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 11 | Rain dragged Barbara Coleman away , with an urgency that took them both off balance . |
| 12 | He ridiculed our political system , he scarified our leading politicians , seizing upon their vulnerable points with a destructive analysis that left them bereft of merit or morality . |
| 13 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 14 | Nor had it stopped her form giving me news that struck me dumb with panic . |