Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
2 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
3 | The one Masklin had found in the Store , the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck . |
4 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
5 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
6 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
7 | ‘ There is another point , Dr. Briant , ’ Kegan said hastily , regretting the self-indulgence that had allowed him the dig at Briant . |
8 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |