Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chartism , although defeated , endowed sections of the working class with a sense of class identity that may have lacked a vision of the totality of class relationships , but was sufficiently powerful to define broad boundaries of interest . |
| 2 | His bone-structure showed strength , yet his mouth had a masculine sensuality that should have carried a health warning . |
| 3 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 4 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 5 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 6 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 7 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |
| 8 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 9 | He took a pinch of snuff that would have fired a cannon . |
| 10 | He had functioned in the community , not just in his family up until … you know , with a lung function that would have kept a lot of people in bed , and he was reading , writing — he had published an article shortly before his hospitalization , and he was a very forceful fellow . |
| 11 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
| 12 | We now propose a council tax that would have produced a bill this year of £617 . |
| 13 | The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 . |
| 14 | Jackie took a swallow that would have washed a hog out of his pen . |
| 15 | Antonio Crepi , for example , used to give me looks that would have melted a candle . |
| 16 | Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi . |
| 17 | Roy Cohn , twenty-seven , with a legal background , was the more serious of the two , with an unappealing scowl and an arrogance that would have befitted a crown prince of Prussia . |
| 18 | A personable and pretty girl was locked into a lifestyle ( the videos , the soap operas , the Jumbo Colouring Pads , mum 's ancient friends ) that would have bored a tortoise . |
| 19 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 20 | Kersey 's face split into a grin that would have intimidated a gorilla . |
| 21 | He clasped her about the waist , she pushed him away with a gesture that would have felled a man . |
| 22 | Some women had stockingsful of stones that would have felled a bullock . |