Example sentences of "[adv] that i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 2 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 3 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 4 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 5 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 6 | There was a momentary hesitation , so that I half expected him to say she was n't there . |
| 7 | Erm , so that I apparently would be still me even if I had completely different desires , tastes , er preferences er so on and so forth . |
| 8 | He was the one who had been inside me , so that I suddenly knew , like a reprieve , a baby was coming , my links were strengthening . |
| 9 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 10 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 11 | Battered , worn ; battered and worn and pitted into a bit of a mask , so that I never quite believe whatever expression it 's got on . |
| 12 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 13 | Conversely , to say ‘ It hurts ’ conveys the information , not merely that I spontaneously flinch from the sensation , but that I am sharply aware of it . |
| 14 | On European monetary and economic union , I will say only that I wholeheartedly support the views expressed by my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 15 | ‘ I have done all that I reasonably could , consistent with economic realities and legal constraints , to increase the opportunities for British Coal . ’ |
| 16 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 17 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 18 | He listened so politely that I perhaps talked a little too much about my dear country . |
| 19 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 20 | No , can I just say something right , I 'm not desperate and I 'm not a slag or anything , it 's just that I really really fancy Howard , and if I could I would suck his willy . |
| 21 | ‘ Well … it 's just that I always wanted to die clutching something that was near to the earth . |
| 22 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 23 | It 's just that I sometimes think oh I 'd love to have a change round but |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not that I either like or dislike it , ’ said Stella , ‘ I just do n't see what good it does . ’ |
| 25 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 26 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 27 | Not that I normally carry |
| 28 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 29 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 30 | Not that I really wan na stop ! |