Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 2 | It was only when Gould declared on 28 February 1837 , that Darwin 's island specimens of the Galapagos mocking bird differed so profoundly that they had to be categorised as three completely distinct species , that the alarm bells began to ring . |
| 3 | He uttered a great cry of anger and shame , without words , and then the words came following , so hotly that they burned in his throat : |
| 4 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |
| 5 | Ten to one ! ’ he shouted , and waltzed his darling Min and her chair so fast that they crashed against a bollard . |
| 6 | But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth . |