Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 2 | Anyone who knew him will gladly testify that he was a disaster behind a steering wheel . |
| 3 | Ven exclaimed , ‘ I 've since realised that it was the beginning of the end for me ! ’ |
| 4 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 5 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 6 | Walking is cheaper , ’ she said , a little irritated that he had n't got the message . |
| 7 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 8 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 9 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 10 | While Mills and Boon themselves rigorously deny that they produce ‘ formula fiction ’ , they remain unique as a publishing house . |
| 11 | The 35-year-old , who has collected 13 major trophies with the Anfield club , said : ‘ I have slowly realised that I am not in Liverpool 's plans for the future . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 13 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 14 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 15 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 16 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 17 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 18 | And besides , although the owner of the Rose Bowl presumably realised that she was receiving almost as many flowers as she sold , Folly was fairly sure that Lisa knew nothing of her relationship with Luke Hunter . |
| 19 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 20 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 21 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 22 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 23 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 24 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 25 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 26 | It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food . |
| 27 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 28 | But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement . |
| 29 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |
| 30 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |