Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adj] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 2 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 3 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 4 | A layer of dust seems less important now that the years are numbered . |
| 5 | Even threats by the Basque terrorist group , ETA , to sabotage the World Fair seem less frightening now that key leaders have been captured . |