Example sentences of "that [vb past] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the traditions of the gentry and the common people met in joint rejection of the middle-class sporting morality that outlawed betting in the name of decency and ‘ character ’ . |
| 2 | But later on , when the hairs that began sprouting in the heat of the bandage become fully grown and replace the old hairs , a startling white patch will appear . |
| 3 | ‘ My understanding is that Luce said everything that needed saying in the letter she wrote to you . ’ |
| 4 | It did n't seem like a diet — in fact , if there was one sentence that kept reappearing in most of the letters I received , it was : ‘ You ca n't call this a diet , it 's more a way of eating ’ . |
| 5 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 6 | Despite occasional lapses ( like the 100kg of highly enriched uranium that went missing in the early 1960s from a factory in Pennsylvania ) the system has not failed catastrophically . |
| 7 | Words that went blowing in the wind |
| 8 | Beside the ruin , the grass had been scythed to rough ankle-length around a handful of old gravestones and an incon-gruously clean slab of veined grey marble that lay glinting in the sun . |