Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice . |
| 2 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 3 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 4 | The legislation mandates that imported or factory-made goods be identified as such and required that any objects offered for sale as ‘ Indian ’ must be accompanied by proof that their maker or makers are of Indian ancestry , i.e. , members of a federally recognized tribe . |
| 5 | Monks hesitated and looked at the old man , but Mr Brownlow 's expression was so serious and determined that the younger man realized it was pointless to protest . |
| 6 | By lunchtime the next day , her eyes were so sore and swollen that she could hardly see . |
| 7 | He broke off , and looked suddenly so exhausted and worn that Leith just did n't have the heart to tell him what an offensive brute his cousin had been . |
| 8 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |
| 9 | ‘ When we met her she was getting very distressed and confused and frightened that she was not with her mother , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 11 | Clean architectural lines , gleaming glass , flower beds so neat and regimented that no weed would dare to seed itself . |
| 12 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 13 | On the axe was some lettering so small and cramped that Jack could barely make it out . |
| 14 | If a family held a small amount of land and was in a village with a large number of households , its strips could be so small and scattered that too much time was spent in travelling between strips . |
| 15 | I am terribly shocked and saddened that Woody chose to have a relationship with Soon-Yi . |
| 16 | She looked up at him , her face so blotched and swollen that despite himself he put out a hand to comfort her , only for her to let out a frightened cry , trying frantically to burrow into the sofa to avoid any contact with him . |
| 17 | ‘ The centres are so overstretched and under-funded that some can only help one in 10 debtors , or less ’ , it said . |
| 18 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 19 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 20 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |