Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring them in so that they share the unpopularity but do n't give them enough power to change anything . ’ |
| 2 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 3 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 4 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 5 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 6 | After they have done this , tell them to return all the cards to the pack and to shuffle them together so that you can not possibly know where they were . |
| 7 | The studio was shaded with heavy blue curtains and as he drew them back so that she could see to read more easily , a shaft of sunlight struck across her hair . |
| 8 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 10 | To know you so completely that ever after you will be me , and I you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 12 | Folding her against him , he gave a long sigh , then moved her back so that he could look into her face . |
| 13 | He turned over on his back and drew her up so that her head lay on his shoulder . |
| 14 | He came to meet her so fast that the skirt of his white coat floated out behind him . |
| 15 | Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 17 | Urquhart lifted his chair with both hands and moved it round so that he could cross his legs . |
| 18 | If you think something you 've noticed is important , report it separately so that it can be put on the resident 's file . |
| 19 | Now , this activity though , I , I 'm going to ask you report it back so that each group reports to me |
| 20 | History may point at Berlin and say it way here that the dream of communism started to curl up and die . |
| 21 | Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke |
| 22 | We peel it off so that the nails go into the wood itself . |
| 23 | He laughed softly , the wind catching the low rumble of sound and tossing it around so that for a moment the very air seemed to be filled with it . |
| 24 | Erm so we we need to work out how much space we need to stand it in so that I can get back to Philip and and and agree that . |
| 25 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 26 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 27 | If anyone puts a verse like that on my headstone , I 'm warning them right now that I 'll get up and haunt them for ever . |
| 28 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She agreed to marry me , but she told me straight away that she would n't be able to live in England all the time , and I told her I could n't live in L.A. |
| 30 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |