Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 2 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 3 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 4 | I think I got it because of my local knowledge and the that gave him the facility of being able to carry on without interruption . |
| 5 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 6 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 7 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 8 | ‘ I failed by one shot when I should have made it easily , and that gave me the kick up the backside I needed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 11 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 12 | I had a good luck toothbrush that won us the title in 92 . |