Example sentences of "that [vb past] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the electron carries a high energy transverse to the direction of the collision , and thus bears the signature of the W particle that gave it birth . |
| 2 | Still lacking is the 625 MMU/cache , a redesign of an older model that gave it trouble and caused delays in the past . |
| 3 | Many contemporary and subsequent critics have emphasized the extent to which The Big Parade ( 1925 ) is essentially a piece of romantic escapism but it was the film 's thoroughly sensible and balanced attitude towards war that earned it respect from discriminating critics in the 1920s . |
| 4 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 5 | It compelled him to look closer ; to feel the smooth , damp surface ; to grasp the ring of iron that held it prisoner ; to look into the black space behind it . |