Example sentences of "[that] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 2 | The signalbox at Kirton Lindsey was the subject of an unexplained occurrence that was to baffle everyone for ever . |
| 3 | She glanced up with dread and peered into the sea of faces that was watching her with curiosity . |
| 4 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 5 | Haines died 16 June 1860 , at Bombay harbour on a ship that was to take him to England , one week after his release from prison . |
| 6 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 7 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 8 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 9 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 11 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 12 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 13 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 14 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 15 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 16 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 17 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 18 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 19 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 20 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |