Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 2 | Rostov rocked back to sit on his heels and the gold on the floor reflected his face , distorting it so that it was not recognisable . |
| 3 | Once you know your daily calorie intake it is easy to adjust it so that you gain or lose weight . |
| 4 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 5 | She would redesign the apartment , transform it so that it became a proper home , a space where friends could come , a place for gatherings , a home like the Princesse 's which always hummed . |
| 6 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 7 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 8 | and put it so that it goes over your feet |
| 9 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 10 | The vast red sail burst free of its lashings , the wind filling it so that it bowed forward in a great scarlet curve on which was painted in brilliant gold the portrait of the Golden Girl herself , bubble-curled , lips pouting — Marilyn Monroe . |
| 11 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |
| 12 | It does help and he twisted it so that you can put your ornaments there and there you see |
| 13 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 14 | If you 're gon na do it like that we 're gon na have to stop you from doing it . |
| 15 | I think we could do it now that we know something more about space . |
| 16 | Did you do it so that you could be with me ? " |
| 17 | He banged it so that it would bend . |
| 18 | even if you played it like that it 's still a crush . |
| 19 | I 've never noticed it before that you came from . |
| 20 | They have already had many changes of home in their comparatively short lives and it would unquestionably confuse and disturb them to leave England now only to return again in a matter of months should the Australian Family Court consider it right that they should make their home here . |
| 21 | To achieve this end , the filter is arranged to operate entirely in its pass band by designing it so that its critical frequency is well above the highest frequency present in the Fourier frequency spectrum of the signal being handled . |
| 22 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 23 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 24 | He took up a sleeping-bag , unzipping it so that she had something dry to sit on . |
| 25 | So nice and slowly , do n't rush it , read it so that I can understand it nice and clearly , sshh , listen |
| 26 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 27 | No I 'm just thinking about erm next Tuesday , I 'm supposed to working , it turns out but I shall try and work it so that I can still come shopping with you , but I shall have to leave |
| 28 | The new technology takes waste material from a manufacturing plant , mixes it with waste gases from the same plant and recycles it so that it can be used again . |
| 29 | I recall one occasion when Mother was so busy trying to finish knitting a quilt — I 've still got it somewhere that she said she would have to miss a service . |
| 30 | But he 's got it so that it hurts . |