Example sentences of "[adv] that i [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex .
2 Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me .
3 ‘ God knows when I 'll see you again , but tonight I shall … so that I have something to remember , my little Cassie . ’
4 ’ . So that I disturbed nothing , but went out through a door into the walled kitchen garden — the garden with its crumbly black soil enriched by centuries of pigs , pails , and poultry , where soon houses would stand .
5 ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife .
6 It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess .
7 Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it .
8 We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one .
9 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
10 Not that I have anything against ugliness .
11 Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage .
12 It 's not that I have anything against them per se , of course .
13 Not that I expect someone like you to ’
14 " Not that I allow anyone to read , " I said .
15 And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret .
16 how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven .
17 ‘ It 's a little bit easier now that I have nothing to lose , ’ he said .
18 Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing .
19 Well let me put it to you like this , I feel sometimes that I need something ,
20 It was then that I noticed something suspicious .
21 It seemed to me then that I wanted everything , a whole new world , but could define no part of it .
22 ‘ I decided there and then that I wanted nothing more to do with him , ’ she says .
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