Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] that [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could we use this what are the benefits of doing this or the disadvantages of doing this so that you 've got people within the group who could as a plant and know what to do with those ideas he comes up with them or she comes up with them do n't know what to do with them just comes up it 's up to the rest of the group and monitor evaluate you know the person that 's always putting things that never work . |
| 2 | On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight . |
| 3 | She thought that he looked nicer than ever in his evening dress , and sounded nicer now that he had dropped his brusque , cold manner with her again . |
| 4 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 5 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 6 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 7 | She nodded shakily , feeling cold now that she had lost the warmth of his body . |
| 8 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 9 | I feel so much better now that I 've written to you , Joan . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course you do , ’ Alyssia replied , feeling slightly better now that she had succeeded in explaining away some of the astrologer 's words . |
| 11 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 12 | One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls . |
| 13 | It was clear long afterwards that I had suffered a serious mental shock . |
| 14 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 15 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |
| 16 | I felt safer now that they 'd arrived and I was curious to see what she meant by ‘ laying out ’ . |
| 17 | They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ . |
| 18 | It is even worse now that they have got to pay V A T on those bills as well . |
| 19 | She was thankful too that she 'd struggled to exist on her grant , and what she earned in vacations , without making too many extra demands on Hugh Russell . |
| 20 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 21 | His own heart would never be quite the same now that he 'd seen her . |
| 22 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 23 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 24 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 25 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 26 | It must have been a day or two afterwards that she had seen the picture . |
| 27 | It was bad enough that she 'd fallen in love with the cold , glacial man she already knew him to be — if she were to suddenly discover a tender , humane element to his character , heaven help her . |
| 28 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |