Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 2 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 3 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 4 | So much so that a theatre fireman laughed so loud that he fell over , accidentally rang the firebell and brought the curtain down prematurely . |
| 5 | After the baby was born , he was so elated that he did not manage to get to the Town Hall to register his daughter 's existence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ No-one is so old that he does not think he could live another year ’ |
| 8 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 9 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 10 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 11 | Mr Pass , the beadle of the Surgeon 's Company , having been present during this experiment , was so alarmed that he died soon after his return home from fright . ’ |
| 12 | He was so unsuccessful that he came close to packing it in until he allowed his gloomy demeanour to shine on stage . |
| 13 | John Barrett , who succeeded his lifelong friend as the BBC 's senior tennis commentator , said : ‘ It 's so sad that he did n't have time to enjoy his retirement . |
| 14 | The letter had destroyed at one blow a certainty so obvious that he had never even questioned it : his conception of the relationship between his parents . |
| 15 | The water was so smooth that he swam confidently out to where it was very deep . |
| 16 | By now Nutmeg was so bewildered that he did n't know what to do . |
| 17 | For example , a junior manager might find the organisation so large that he has relatively little influence . |
| 18 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 19 | He gave a start for he had been so relaxed that he had nearly fallen asleep . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 21 | ‘ She did , and Russell was so unhappy that he did not contest it . ’ |
| 22 | This knight was named Oleg Ban , and he was so poor that he had only a horse and two hounds , nine men to fight for him , nine maids , and a wooden fortress ; but he was the bravest knight in the whole land . |
| 23 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 24 | Behind Boswell 's published account of his fidgety stay at the Mackinnons ' — he felt so lethargic that he did not encourage Johnson to talk so that he would not have to write it down — lies some oddity . |
| 25 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 26 | Erm , had , he was very happy with it , and he was so happy that he tossed up , obviously it turned to be inexpendible small child , erm , who was promptly decapitated by this fan , which is , I mean , it 's a terrible story . |
| 27 | I remember I was due at one in the afternoon , but he was so busy that he did n't manage to get me till nine in the evening , but which time all my nerves had thankfully evaporated , and I guess I sang pretty well as a result . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |