Example sentences of "that [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 2 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 3 | There was something in his voice that made her open her eyes . |
| 4 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 5 | So that made me unhappy , and in turn made Lesley unhappy , so it was n't a very good situation . |
| 6 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 7 | But I knew it was ultrasonics that made me afraid . |
| 8 | PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm . |
| 9 | I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick . |
| 10 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 11 | ‘ There was something about the way she asked it that made me suspicious . |
| 12 | He was angry with himself , and that made him reckless . |
| 13 | A natural Maestro , born with something in his genes that made him capable of re-inventing the workings of the Reconciliation ? |
| 14 | Even though her hitherto slim figure was heavy with child , there was a beauty about her , a certain dignity , that made him proud . |
| 15 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 16 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 17 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |
| 18 | There was something about those faces , however , that made him uneasy and coming nearer he saw that they had been terribly pocked by round shot and musket fire , as if by a disfiguring disease . |
| 19 | There was something about the memory of that evening that made him uneasy . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was this very indecision that made him depressed . |
| 21 | It was not just the flower-beds marked by dying crocuses and the general air of neglect , with last autumn 's leaves left to rot in sunless corners , that made him depressed . |
| 22 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 23 | He was a spare , grizzled man , who limped with the gout that made him ill-tempered , so unlike the dandified figure of Lord Dacre 's vague memory that he felt wholly disorientated in his presence . |
| 24 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 25 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
| 26 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 27 | All these factors have some role in Emerson 's make-up , but it is that old Paulista go-ahead mentality that made him one of the most disciplined , most consistent and , in his prime , ablest of drivers . |
| 28 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 29 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |
| 30 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |