Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] that [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | D H S S , because very often , they either ca n't get telephone boxes working , or they 're hanging on so long that they do n't have enough money |
| 2 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 3 | I have done mine , erm , I will send one of these round , but the majority of them I feel are so very small that I do n't feel that we need to discuss filling in the because I know the intention was that we sent the document well in advance of what 's being done otherwise we are just going to get bogged down in er , this meeting in terms of all of the decisions . |
| 4 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 5 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 6 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 7 | I am not so thick-brained that I did n't get the memo . ’ |
| 8 | And that piece of undeniable truth was , perhaps , a mistake , too , for Dr Neil was not so drunk that he did not ask , without a pause , ‘ And what happened to them , McAllister , when you lost your parents and your fortune ? ’ |
| 9 | Then there are the film adaptations since 1950 , almost all of them missed opportunities , and the fluctuating fortunes of the plays in the theatre , of which Holroyd provides a compact summary — though not so compact that he does not find room for such items as a musical version of Antony and Cleopatra called Her First Roman , which opened ( and closed ) in Boston in the late Sixties . |
| 10 | I thought the Sex stuff was a bit weird but not so weird that I did n't want to get involved with it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not so green that I do n't know what a man means when he invites a woman back to his flat after midnight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What you mean is , you 're not so thick-skulled that you did n't get the message . ’ |
| 13 | Well , Mr. Bolton , I am not really certain that you DO have a problem ! |
| 14 | He 's not that intolerant that he does n't recognize the need for personnel records , legal contracts and key reports to be filed away . |
| 15 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 16 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 17 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 18 | Er so I think it 's really vitally important that we do know , have basic what our money is going to be spent on this this year , not the year . |
| 19 | Gurder was not certain , not entirely certain , that Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) really existed , and Angalo was n't entirely certain that he did n't . |
| 20 | So it was n't really surprising that we did n't recognise Ollie when we got into the arrivals hall . |
| 21 | I 'm very very concerned that we do n't the . |
| 22 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |