Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm dead upset that I have n't had any pornographic mail . |
| 2 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 3 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 4 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 5 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 6 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 7 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 8 | ‘ The feeling was so strong that I actually felt quite emotional — almost tearful , ’ says Julie . |
| 9 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 10 | The roof of the pub was so low that I could not stand upright . |
| 11 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 12 | Some manipulation , I dare say , but gentle massage — and then , once the spasms and the pain have gone , Jimbo will be so grateful that I 'll easily be able to persuade him to start his own passive exercises . ’ |
| 13 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 14 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 15 | Liz has always taken a great deal of interest in make-up and admits to being ‘ so vain that I wear Revlon 's Aqualash waterproof mascara when diving ’ . |
| 16 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 17 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 18 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 19 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 20 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 21 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 22 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 23 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 24 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 25 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 26 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 27 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 28 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 29 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |