Example sentences of "[adv] that you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He probably thought it better that you did n't know . |
| 2 | ‘ You liked me so much that you walked out on me ! ’ |
| 3 | So you did n't see anyone much that you knew ? |
| 4 | Although we had we had warning that erm obviously that you knew the kids were gon na start a new season in September , you 'd start saving the money and a bill would come up . |
| 5 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 6 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 8 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 9 | It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … . |
| 10 | Then there was some talk of placing portions in various magazines , so that you had to buy the lot in order to read the book . |
| 11 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 12 | So that you 'd Yes |
| 13 | And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening . |
| 14 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 15 | Er but you just grabbed a little harder so that you made ends meet |
| 16 | Peter Gabriel 's commitment to world music is well known : here the political elements in his work , usually understated , were pushed well forward so that you wound up as moved by his concern as by his skill . |
| 17 | It was all right if you went away to Lynn or anything like that — so that you got a week or two in . |
| 18 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 19 | Well , German evacu evacuees , but it 's all condensed so that you got a lot of information . |
| 20 | if I had n't intervened , so that you turned on me |
| 21 | Was he one of those people who told jokes with a perfectly straight face so that you did n't know if it was a joke or not ? |
| 22 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 23 | So that you did n't |
| 24 | He was immensely strong and could ride up almost any hill — he also had scant respect for " rests " so that you needed a vigorous constitution to enjoy it . |
| 25 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 26 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 27 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 28 | Only that you had some very confusing experiences … ’ |
| 29 | it was only that you stumbled over it . |
| 30 | It , you , you used to meet a lot of different kinds of people and er not only that you travelled about quite a bit as well . |