Example sentences of "that was [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub . |
| 2 | Ella never missed anything that was said in the kitchen . |
| 3 | In fact I discovered later that he was sitting just under the window , and could hear everything that was said in the kitchen . |
| 4 | The doubt in his tone was understandable , for the sodden object that was reposing in the middle of a puddle bore small resemblance to any form of headgear . |
| 5 | Strangely the real sound rang out loudly over the pseudo-sound of the widening astral whirlpool that was forming in the middle of the great octagonal slab . |
| 6 | She brushed them with a brush that was kept in the summer-house , making them stand still , with their heads up . |
| 7 | It was then that David realised his son 's mouth was full of the taste of the air-freshener spray that was kept in the bathroom . |
| 8 | The trip to Gdynia , Poland to me was a remarkable one by the Eighth Airforce because of the distance involved and the location of the target that was hit in the daytime . |
| 9 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 10 | Every decision that was made in the house was his , his wife had no say in it . |
| 11 | We believe it is essential to build on the political and technical progress that was made in the agreement that environmental sustainability should be the ultimate goal for all human societies , including ours in Wales . |
| 12 | The first thing that may be noted is that the contrast between different parts of Fig. 21.18 provides immediate evidence for marked organization of the structures ( the point that was illustrated in the case of a wake by Fig. 21.9 ) . |
| 13 | the cable that was demonstrated in the magazine was a little like a lobster claw cable , or could perhaps be described as a three-way plait . |
| 14 | A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall . |
| 15 | The application that was heard in the Chancery Division was merely a preliminary issue to see if Eagle was entitled to pursue its claim . |
| 16 | He ran all the way to the bottom of the garden and pointed to a duck that was swimming in the river . |
| 17 | er , now she said the only one we had , in fact she said the only one that 's listing is the one that was done in the Abbey , Westminster Abbey , with the Westminster choir and the London Philharmonic in nineteen eighty two |
| 18 | He sat on the top step , raised the automatic with both hands and aimed it at the arm that was writhing in the aperture below . |
| 19 | There was Morrison phrase that was quoted in the play — did you go to the play ? |
| 20 | The father took a golf-club that was standing in the corner . |
| 21 | There , they will be able to ride in a train hauled by a 102-year-old locomotive that was used in the construction of the last mainline railway to be built in Britain . |
| 22 | In the early years of the twentieth century he made contributions to the techniques of gunnery , for instance , in improving ballistic calculations , designing a range-finder that was used in the Boer war , and a new form of gun-sight for the Navy . |
| 23 | I lifted a broken placard that was lying in the centre of the road to throw it into the side when two policemen pounced on me . |
| 24 | And erm in erm , the er yes the not the Norway , the er the ones that was growing in the shelter of the oak trees , they were surviving alright . |
| 25 | And you took to do with the things that was happening in the Cooperative . |
| 26 | Her eyes looked dark and there was a bleak expression on her face that was mirrored in the face of the man sitting opposite her . |
| 27 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 28 | He was associated with Edward Irving and Henry Drummond [ qq.v. ] and participated in the early prophetic conferences at Albury , but later distanced himself from the movement that was to result in the formation of the Catholic Apostolic Church . |
| 29 | This Act did not create any new cause of action for wrongfully causing death ; it merely continued any existing cause of action for personal injuries and loss of expectation of life that was vested in the deceased when he died that would otherwise have been extinguished on his death . |
| 30 | One that was published in the Journal the American Society for Acoustical Research . |