Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
| 2 | Sarah had produced a child by another man , and that made her a loose woman . |
| 3 | Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’ |
| 4 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
| 5 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 6 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 7 | But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 9 | It was that experience , allied to his next job as arts minister , that made him an obvious choice to become Major 's first Heritage Secretary . |
| 10 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 11 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 12 | It is necessary to examine the idea of coalitionism and the political forces that made it a powerful alternative before considering its direct impact on the Unionist party . |
| 13 | The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death . |
| 14 | AND ALL THAT made it a busy year for Autocar & Motor . |
| 15 | She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own . |
| 16 | I 'd like to put forward the argument that it was by trying to accomodate Cuntona , Wallace and Chappie together at the start of last season that made us a soft touch away from home . |
| 17 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 18 | There was something raw about him ; his body sweated to its essence , his face betraying a hunger behind its symmetry that lent him a bedevilled look . |
| 19 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 20 | ‘ I had time in the wilderness when my form was not good and that taught me a few lessons . |
| 21 | During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance . |
| 22 | It was an impressive sight , and one that frightened me a little at first , just because it was such a huge change and I was worried that it might happen to the island sometime . |
| 23 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 24 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 25 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 26 | DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 . |
| 27 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |
| 28 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 29 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 30 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |