Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 2 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 3 | The cabin was surprisingly spacious , even if it did lack the little human touches that made it a home . |
| 4 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |
| 5 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 6 | But it was your idea of erm entrances that got me a bit scared . |
| 7 | And I chose a conception that promised me a child of certain defined personality characteristics as well as physical ones . |
| 8 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 9 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 10 | And it is this struggle that showed us a way . |
| 11 | As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ? |
| 12 | and he goes that 's that fucking arsehole that called you a slut is n't it ? |
| 13 | No lights came on where I figured the master bedroom probably was ; that comforted me a bit . |
| 14 | The other one that worried me a bit , is how are we recr recruiting ? |
| 15 | My initial impressions , from hearing the occasional report ( as above ) was that we made a disastrous start , and went a goal behind … that took us a while to get over , in the meantime Norwich were boosted . |
| 16 | Yes , and I never heard of this And there 's another lady that brought me a picture with four generations in . |
| 17 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 18 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
| 19 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 20 | Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic . |
| 21 | Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage . |
| 22 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 23 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 25 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 26 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 27 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 28 | ‘ Gosh , that gave me a scare ! ’ breathed Shirley , and Heather nodded . |
| 29 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 30 | In addition , the finished cloth had a natural , peasanty look , often full of flaws and slubs , that gave it a charm and character which coincided perfectly with the image Laura sought . |