Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house .
4 One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation .
5 So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved .
6 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 .
7 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 :
8 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 .
9 If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters .
10 Ten to one ! ’ he shouted , and waltzed his darling Min and her chair so fast that they crashed against a bollard .
11 fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a
12 But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth .
13 Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light .
14 In short , high-technology managers recognize quite explicitly that they depend upon their people and their people 's ‘ local knowledge ’ — their detailed expertise in and familiarity with technology , markets , production realities , and all the myriad details of how to understand what is happening , and how to actually implement any plan ( Baba , 1988 ; Geertz , 1983 ) .
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