Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 2 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 3 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 4 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 5 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 6 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 7 | He also arranged for the Tanager Gallery , a co-op that enlivened the 10th Street scene for many years , to move there . |
| 8 | Apart from the inordinate length of those legs , and the firm muscularity of his biceps evident beneath the dark sweater , there was something about the thrust of that strong male jaw that invited a second look . |
| 9 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 10 | Let us look at those towns that grew up in the midst of their own open fields , that entered the nineteenth century with their population rising at a phenomenal rate , but were wholly unable to expand their building area to meet this rise in numbers . |
| 11 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 12 | They drove past the two figures and Terry sounded his horn that played the first few bars of the Star Spangled Banner . |
| 13 | ‘ Carissima , ’ he said in an urgent whisper , and then he swung her into his arms and his mouth dropped to hers , slanting across her lips with a hot , savage passion that drove the last bit of rational thought from her mind . |
| 14 | It led , for example , to the quest for the nature of the signal from the organizer that caused the second embryo and the second nervous system to form . |
| 15 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 16 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 17 | The second XB-70 ( 62–207 , tail number 20207 ) flew on July 17 , 1965 , with many of the ‘ bugs ’ that plagued the first example ironed-out and exceeded Mach 1.4 at 42,000 feet on the first flight . |
| 18 | A significant role in the disorder that plagued the last decades of the Russian Empire was played by the so-called ‘ revolutionary intelligentsia ’ . |
| 19 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 20 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 21 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 22 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 23 | Yet these upward pressures became irresistible in the period of the economic prosperity that followed the Second World War . |
| 24 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 25 | So that on er if you look at the crew picture this is the crew that flew the first mission to Gdynia , Poland except kneeling the second man from the left is , he did not go , I flew the co-pilot position . |
| 26 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 27 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 28 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 29 | Mike Newell also weighed in with two , but it was the awesome , all-round power of Shearer that smashed the First Division club 's hopes of Coca-Cola Cup glory . |
| 30 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |