Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 2 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 3 | Three guillotine motions were tabled for discussion of the Bill that became the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 4 | Mutual interest in statistics led to a meeting with accountant Anthony Weigall , and the foundation of the group that became The Cricket Society . |
| 5 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 6 | It was only his tense state that made the crash sound so loud . |
| 7 | But it was Gerry Conlon 's account of being interrogated after the Guildford bombings that made the scalp crawl . |
| 8 | Beyond the bizjet is a mighty Rolls-Royce RB.211 turbofan , representing the engine advances that made the widebody airliner era a possibility . |
| 9 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |
| 10 | The thing that made the turning point happened just as we were leaving . |
| 11 | Williams called Henry , ‘ Henrietta ’ and proceeded to detail a story that made the man blush and deny everything . |
| 12 | Bernd Schuster , the German whom Toshack uses as sweeper , committed the one foul that made the heart sink as Michael Laudrup , in glittering form , was brought down . |
| 13 | Although his features were almost hidden by the collar of his goosedown parka he nodded and did something with his eyebrows that made the company smile . |
| 14 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 15 | The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies , unfairness , regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular . |
| 16 | My shadow lapped the outside steps because the doors were open letting out the heat , wide open because I had n't bothered to bolt them , and the side door was open too , creating a through-draught that made the fire smoke and the dogs restless . |
| 17 | In the drawing room there was none of the untidy , unmatched squalor that made the morning room a place where troubles or pleasures could have their breathing spaces . |
| 18 | His mouth took control , its expertise prising her unwilling lips apart , while his hand slid inside the cross-over bodice of her dress , his fingers relearning the shape and fullness of her breast , the texture of her taut nipple , with a surety of touch that made the blood race through her veins and bathed her entire body in heat . |
| 19 | Next instant , she uttered a shriek that made the housekeeper jump . |
| 20 | She understood that — even the parts about the governing rules that made the cypher change — but her mind was too slow , too inflexible to hold and use what she had been shown . |
| 21 | This time he grinned at her , a slow smile that made the breath catch in her throat , because it transformed the unyielding contours of his face into devilish charm . |
| 22 | Warner Bros had once again profitably combined instruction and entertainment but as was so often the case it was the way in which they had used an actor that made the movie work in both respects . |
| 23 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 24 | Cordoba had clearly cried enough a good two furlongs from the finish as first Batzushka and then Balla Cove set a furious pace which resulted in a time that equalled the course record by a two-year-old over six furlongs . |
| 25 | The elevator took her to the top floor of the highrise that housed the health club with its big swimming-pool , Jacuzzi , sauna , Turkish bath and view of Paris . |
| 26 | As he dejectedly left the huge shed-like building that housed the sound stage , he slipped and a New York subway token fell out of his pocket . |
| 27 | Leaving by a window on the stairs , I was able to avoid the mud that carpeted the ground floor . |
| 28 | But the basic impulse that animated the eugenics movement survives in the disposition to ignore human personality and treat people as material to be manipulated by ‘ agencies under social control ’ , as Galton put it . |
| 29 | All the self-squandering and deficiency of lifeskills that animated The Birthday Party and The Fall , The Smiths turned into brilliant , glamorous , consumable pop , two minute bursts of otherness in the heart of the charts . |
| 30 | Cancers that developed in the bones were called Sarcomas , those that affected the blood were called Leukaemias and it was Lymphomas that attacked the lymph system . |