Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as a step away from the craftsman entrepreneur that has been John Makepeace 's hallmark he has introduced a new course to Hooke Park College for manufacturing businesses that want to make better use of wood . |
| 2 | From this vantage point , the heads of both lochs are seen to be terminated by a group of mountains that seem to bar further progress eastwards . |
| 3 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 4 | Like so much of metropolitan Europe , it was an area that had seen better days . |
| 5 | A moment later the door creaked open and he appeared , or a fair facsimile , a very old man with grey hair down to his shoulders , a black dresscoat of velvet that had seen better days , a pair of very baggy corduroy trousers beneath of the type worn by peasants on the farm . |
| 6 | The lodge was an old farmhouse that had seen better days . |
| 7 | Luiza and Freddi were there , Luiza muffled up in a huge and unflattering beaver lamb coat that had seen better days . |
| 8 | But from the 1870s , following what was seen as a decline in standards in the 1850s and 1860s , a new confidence in the moralistic ethic can be detected , as if the hesitations that had governed earlier attempts were cast off . |
| 9 | So instead of a bit of ‘ ooh la la , ’ it was mostly ‘ oh what dross ’ as Sky TV viewers joined Chelsea 's biggest League crowd of the season for a game that had promised better things , even without the absent you-know-who . |
| 10 | The region today is a sparsely populated land of ruined homesteads , small towns that have seen better days , farmers who are too reliant on unreplenishable groundwater , and missile silos . |
| 11 | Inside there 's no carpet , just old lino , a few vinyl-covered stacking chairs , and two tables that have seen better days . |
| 12 | Cabinet Ministers struggle into dinner jackets that have seen better days ( so , too , do their detectives ) , their wives sit long before dressing tables applying powder and paint . |