Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 2 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 3 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 4 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 5 | Bernice had seen a number of films where that had succeeded , and more importantly thought it likely that everybody had seen at least one film where that less than daring idea had been tried . |
| 6 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 7 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 8 | amazed that I had returned at all , and |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 10 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 11 | Her fairy-tale prince , so handsome that it hurt to look at him . |