Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this she continued to wheeze daily and thought that her inhalers were of no benefit . |
| 2 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 3 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 4 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 5 | I found your recent article ‘ A new discipline ’ on marketing in the Nineties ( MW December 6 ) extremely interesting and felt that it raised a number of important issues . |
| 6 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal , however , thought the acquittals wrong and declared that it was not going to ‘ compound the error ’ by quashing the convictions . |
| 8 | They concluded that the level of violence was high and reported that , in a period of only one year , 59 per cent of women had experiences of violence . |
| 9 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 10 | Indeed , if neglected , a dog 's coat may become so tangled and matted that the poor creature will have to be anaesthetized in order to restore its coat to a good condition . |
| 11 | The Company was not really interested and explained that their powers had long since lapsed and costly new Parliamentary Powers would be needed . |
| 12 | The proprietor of Bordon undertakers Thorne-Leggatt , David Leggatt , was unconvinced and agreed that the independent sector would probably not partake in it . |
| 13 | She seemed embarrassed and muttered that her mother had given Terry the photograph , but before she said any more Mrs Redmond began to ask Joe about the war news . |
| 14 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 15 | When Mark returned with a large wooden and discovered that it floated , he looked up and a slow smile crept over his face as he said , ‘ It 's a trick ! ’ |
| 16 | Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host . |
| 17 | They both enthused over my new look and I became weepy and wailed that I could n't keep them . |
| 18 | This position as ‘ also attending ’ in the daily panoply of style was not for want of effort : ‘ the Dedicated Follower of Fashion ’ was no sartorial doormat ; but it was acceptable and expected that the female , complete with which ever secondary sexual characteristic was currently ‘ in ’ , should be the object of absolute scrutiny . |
| 19 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 20 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 21 | She went up to the dormitory , where she found her school friends , anxious and exulting over her delay , grieved and relieved that her sortie had escaped detection ; they gathered round her , perched on the bed , drawing cosily round themselves the striped dusty coarse hooped curtains on their brass poles , and they listened to her story . |
| 22 | An engineer 's report had condemned the spire as dangerous and said that it must be dismantled . |
| 23 | Some books become such classics that they run on into innumerable editions and impressions , with the original so much extended , altered and corrected that there is scarcely a vestige of it left . |
| 24 | The first time my mother had been indignant and remarked that Syl had no right to disappear for the evening without telling us where he was going . |
| 25 | He saw Olga Stych go off to church an hour early and deduced that she must be helping with some small church chore before the service . |
| 26 | How was it possible that in a single fraction of a second , and for the very first time , she discovered a motion of the arm and body so perfect and polished that it resembled a finished work of art ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was so nervous and fatigued that I could n't concentrate . |
| 28 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 29 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 30 | Brian 's body was so badly mutilated and charred that the pathologists could not determine the exact cause or time of death . |