Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 3 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
| 4 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 5 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 6 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 7 | The sky was huge , a pale , bright , cloudless blue , and the white surface of the road ahead rippled in the heat mirages that made it look like little waves . |
| 8 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
| 9 | He leaned and peered a little , but not from any weakness of the eyes , rather out of a fixed suspicion that caused him to study with narrow attention all who came near him , and especially strangers . |
| 10 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 11 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 12 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 13 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 14 | In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date . |
| 15 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 16 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 17 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 18 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
| 19 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 20 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 21 | And it could be argued that had he fought during that time , he might have honed the ring sharpness to capitalise on the moment he rocked Tyson in the opening round . |
| 22 | But everybody was happy there , and er , till this came along , he 's the one that wanted us to work for less . |