Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 2 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 3 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 6 | For the shop itself , we need to know God 's grace under stress , especially so that we continue in fellowship without friction . |
| 7 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 8 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 9 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 10 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 11 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 12 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 13 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 14 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 15 | Suddenly there was a rush of water and he was there and she grabbed at him and then the world and white water spun as he entered her again , deeply , thoroughly , moving so desperately that she moaned against his mouth . |
| 16 | He left so quickly that she stared in astonishment at the door he had closed behind him . |
| 17 | It is much more that he seems to be playing games . |
| 18 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 19 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 20 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 21 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 22 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 23 | He was depressed , so severely that he took to his bed . |
| 24 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 25 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 26 | One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation . |
| 27 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 28 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 29 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 30 | Better though that he simmered for a while , Carrie thought as she stirred the greens and tested the potatoes with a fork . |