Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 2 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 3 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 4 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 5 | The modes of learning that helped me are those that I now use with my pupils . |
| 6 | I concentrated on keeping straight ( easy ) and feeling for the peak nose-up pitch that signified we were ready to lift onto the step ( more difficult ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 8 | The hill that faced her was bearded like a prophet with a wild white waterfall . |
| 9 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 10 | Well this feller that rung me was sixty three . |
| 11 | When I joined the Partisans , among other things that surprised me was this endless attention to the arms : their constant cleaning , oiling , polishing . |
| 12 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 13 | The lips that touched hers were firm and warm . |
| 14 | The lips that covered hers were soft and warm and salty . |
| 15 | Winter had closed the eyelids of the land and the snow that covered it was ill-fitting and dingy like a second-hand shroud . |
| 16 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 17 | The new industrial age presented a vision of hell , of ‘ dark Satanic mills ’ , and the science that supported it was cold , objectified . |
| 18 | But this time the voice that answered her was deep and rich — and she had heard it before . |
| 19 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 20 | The call from the former Yugoslavia that said they were safe an well . |
| 21 | There again , it 's gon na be , it 's something like , that said it was forty four days and suddenly I thought , bugger that ! |
| 22 | He walked free after embarrassing the RSPCA by producing a book written by one of its own experts that said it was safe to leave fish home alone for up to two weeks . |
| 23 | We 're not serving cheese across the counter here.If you had a ticket that said you were 5th in the queue you would be falsely reassured if the people ahead of you were seriously ill or dying . |
| 24 | When I opened the door to my tent the sight that greeted me was unbelievable . |
| 25 | The sight that greeted me was unforgettable . |
| 26 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 27 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
| 28 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 29 | He was so naturally modest ( some have described his so-called humility — ‘ the most difficult of Christian virtues ’ , as he put it — as an irritating pose ) that had he been aware of this silent hero-worship , he would no doubt have felt uneasy . |
| 30 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |