Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was nothing of interest or value , nothing that gave any clue as to why the scientist had been killed .
2 He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving .
3 Something that wore black armour and had a visored face , and who would not materialise unless a dark and terrible enchantment was spun …
4 A thing to be forgotten , and certainly not something that had any power in the present except that of a distant unhappy memory .
5 ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same .
6 Something that made small noises , but even in the pitch blackness gave the impression of hugeness .
7 The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible .
8 It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music .
9 I realised that I needed something that was a bit more active and fairly creative , preferably something that included both sexes .
10 Something that liked dark places .
11 I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped .
12 ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ?
13 Fused , however , they metamorphosed into something that conjured improbable visions .
14 As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her .
15 One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me .
16 Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense .
17 The one that married that chap Walker , from Edinburgh . ’
18 He 's not he one that took this warehouse coordinator job ?
19 Further , the " kingdom " he now acquired , with Le Mans as a key-place ( and Bishop Aldric a strong supporter ) , was one that carried exceptional prospects .
20 This was their tradition , one that spanned ten millennia .
21 For them it was an expedient , almost a makeshift , and one that contained obvious dangers .
22 C. Wright Mills 's interpretation of the role and relevance of the sociology of knowledge was not however one that received much support .
23 These and other statements indicated that a comprehensive computerised records management system was intended by the proposals , ie one that required all activities and events associated with the files , and the documents they contain , to be recorded .
24 Ideally the control task would be one that required some sort of discrimination learning , thus ensuring that both groups came to the test phase having had the experience of learning one previous discrimination problem .
25 There is a reason for this Chairman is that erm I think erm many of us and I am sure we would be deserved by recent articles in the Daily Telegraph er particularly the one that appeared last week which erm referred , I can see in the report , that it referred to a report which is very critical of the work of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of erm Pollution .
26 I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years .
27 One that involved disturbing experiences of her gifts …
28 ‘ He was in that train , the one that crashed last night , the derailment south of Kendal .
29 I can not think of anything that happened that day which I would have wished otherwise .
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