Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were kind : the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort , the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking . |
| 2 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 3 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 4 | The English were well informed about the manoeuvres that had made him Emperor , and Charles II 's Poet Laureate , John Dryden , wrote a play about the struggle for the succession in Delhi . |
| 5 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 6 | And she recalled her favourite Hans Andersen fairytale , the one that had brought her time and again to tears . |
| 7 | Charlie 's scrimshaw was particularly beautiful , an art that had taken him years to perfect and of which he was extremely proud . |