Example sentences of "that he [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I ca n't even be certain that he went through at four o'clock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 6 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |