Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 2 | When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free … |
| 3 | He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ he said , moving round so that he had his back to the others . |
| 5 | One of the somewhat older guy , he can orchestrate it so much so that he gets his gold out of it . |
| 6 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 7 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 8 | If you are liable to do this , then keep hold of the opponent 's ankle as you thrust forwards , lifting and pushing the trapped leg so that you turn his closed side towards you . |
| 9 | So much so that I bought his only copy of it , and earned his cordial loathing . |
| 10 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 11 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 12 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 13 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 14 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 15 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 16 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 17 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 18 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 19 | Not that she wanted his love even now ; she did not-just his advice , just his financial acumen . |
| 20 | His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words . |
| 21 | He swallowed his pride and kept quiet , but was so furious when he got home that he hurled his hated casts into the coalbin . |
| 22 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 23 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 24 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 25 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
| 26 | Enough for now that she held his hand . |
| 27 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |
| 28 | And now that he had his muster here , what would the king do ? |
| 29 | He might say now that he put his wife and child first ; he might even think it . |
| 30 | Simply that he pushed his plate away , turned sideways in his chair to face me , then stretched , crossed his legs . |