Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's been sort of revolutionized , when you when you think that you used to have to buy , did n't have to buy your tea , but you used to buy a tea from the chemist shop and the only person that sold it was a chemist , that was . |
| 2 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 3 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 4 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 5 | In the crowd that surrounded him was a man called Jairus , who was the president of one of the local synagogues . |
| 6 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 7 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 8 | He reached into a drawer down to his left and produced a cheque-book , one of the big fat jobs that meant it was a company one , not a personal account . |
| 9 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 10 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's not me , ’ she said ‘ The woman in those papers , ’ It was confusing , sometimes , when she 'd go on about her papers , Sometimes she meant the ones that proved she was a citizen , sometimes the others , the ones that proved she was n't So she believed . |
| 12 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |
| 13 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 14 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 15 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 16 | He instructed me to look after you , ’ she finished with a look that said it was no use arguing . |
| 17 | Roman exclaimed in satisfaction and , turning into a wide drive , pulled up in front of a building that said it was a motor halt . |
| 18 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 19 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 20 | Although I admire Mrs Dinwiddie 's concern for her family , I remind her that had she been a mother less than 80 years ago , when there were no modern crop chemicals , animal health products , food preservatives , human vaccines and modern medicines it is unlikely that her complete family would have survived childhood . |
| 21 | Wilshere said that had he been a juror in this case , he would have voted for sending Field to trial ; his conduct had been cruel and brutal in the extreme and ‘ the violence to this poor creature in her diseased and irritable state ’ increased the symptoms and hastened her death . |
| 22 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |