Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just something that ignited enough to get a flame onto his seat . |
| 2 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 3 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 4 | Thus political leaders of lesser developed countries found themselves part of a government that had officially accepted a family planning programme or soil conservation programme ( or both ) , but were aware that there was widespread opposition locally to both . |
| 5 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 6 | Here , a chaos of carts , overthrown and jumbled together , lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill ; there , confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond . |
| 7 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 8 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 9 | Across the room she smiled at Rachaela her straight white teeth that had never needed a dentist . |
| 10 | I was holding off buying an away shirt , as I did n't want to wear a shirt that had never won a game . |
| 11 | Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now . |