Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only knew that there was a part of her that welcomed this , increasingly subject to a perilous urge to surrender herself to Luke , and not merely her physical self but all those special subjectives that made her Maria McFadden . |
| 2 | Here she was , sounding , even to her own ears , like a puritanical Swiss burgher , imposing a moral code on Sylvie that had never been hers ; forcing her into a mould which was alien to everything that made her Sylvie . |
| 3 | ‘ The selectors have made their decisions concerning the squad and nobody is going to knock on my door again unless I recapture the form that made me No 1 . |
| 4 | Richard Goldschmidt 's problem — which was one of a set that made him resort , for most of his professional life , to the extreme belief that evolution takes great leaps rather than small steps — turns out to be no problem at all . |
| 5 | On the one hand , he was loved for his own great ability , his loyalty to his teams , his concern for youngsters and all the other good work he did off the pitch , and for his warm , relaxed character that made him friends in many places . |
| 6 | Every day this week you can collect pictures of the Grand Prix victories that made him king . |
| 7 | STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago . |
| 8 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 9 | But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May . |
| 10 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 11 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 12 | And so it went , three quid to six to twelve — if he sometimes almost won , that lent him hope and kept him playing on — that the tables turned and Rab was skint . |
| 13 | I felt totally alienated from my body , the inferior female body that labelled me second-rate , the body that I did not ask to have . |
| 14 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 15 | Or are things still fragile at the back ( from over here it seems that that was the main thing that caused us trouble last year , and in some early matches this season . ) ? |
| 16 | Was there anything about the way that you carried out the operation in the flat that caused you dissatisfaction ? |
| 17 | Maybe he was looking at a book that told you things like that . |
| 18 | I would offer a contract that allowed him exclusivity if he gets a minimum of 100 candidates in November 1993 and 200 during 1993/94 . |
| 19 | Ramsay asked Fraser if he thought that they could risk assuming the Regent 's agreement to this , and grinning , that man averred that Sir Archie Douglas would agree to anything that spared him trouble . |
| 20 | The jury that awarded her £600,000 may also have thought she had suffered enough in her life , he said . |
| 21 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 22 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
| 23 | He 'd be stuck there with Terry and Tom sitting as close to him as their chains would allow , hardly letting him finish a thought before jumping in with an idea that took them miles away from Brian 's original argument . |
| 24 | John 's problems seem to have arisen mainly from his own nature , the other side of the very qualities that brought him success . |
| 25 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 26 | HAPPY IN HELL — The Christians ( Island ) Restrained soul-pop outing that sees the brothers Christian returning to the kind of infectious form that brought them success with ‘ Forgotten Town ’ and ‘ Ideal World ’ . |
| 27 | And as for Steiner 's suggestion that the West lays waste to the natural world , can he have forgotten that it was the Soviet Union that brought us Chernobyl ? |
| 28 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 29 | Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence . |
| 30 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |