Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 2 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 3 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 4 | One could use various pejorative terms to describe that which I wo n't but but my clients felt very strongly that there are not very many people living in Scotton and it was an easy option to say let's push the road further away . |
| 5 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Government 's economic planners knew full well that , with shortages of essential materials such as steel , even that was an optimistic target . |
| 8 | This is independent of the distortion circuit , and presumably high impedance , so it would not completely rule out the use of tapes and CDs inputted here so that your hours of lonely practice can be enhanced by accompaniment . |
| 9 | The three groups co-operated loosely so that none could be isolated and stopped . |
| 10 | Is it really plausible that thousands upon thousands of lucky chance mutations happened coincidentally so that the lens and the retina , which can not work without each other , evolved in synchrony ? |
| 11 | This apparently arose because of the dryness of the site chosen ; an equivalent set left on the ground in much damper conditions disintegrated so quickly that no trace of them or their contents remained after 10 months . |
| 12 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 13 | The courts decided readily enough that in this instance the offence is one requiring proof of mens rea ; ‘ the gist of the offence to my mind lies in the intention with which the thing is done , ’ as Darling J. put it . |
| 14 | Information from the Novices showed quite clearly that they all saw themselves as working towards a position at the back of the terrace . |
| 15 | In John the Baptist s ministry you find the fulfilment of the prophecies made long ago that a messenger would come to prepare the way of the Lord . |
| 16 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 17 | Respondents agreed almost unanimously that the range and quality of Christmas bestsellers was excellent , and a significant improvement on last year . |
| 18 | Seventh , the justices had no doubts as to the care the grandparents could give the children but that would result in the children being separated and the justices felt very strongly that that should not happen . |
| 19 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 20 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |
| 21 | Alexei came forward so that he was at Rostov 's shoulder . |
| 22 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 23 | The sets of values embedded in one 's goals in childhood have to be modified so radically and conflicts resolved so ruthlessly that few attempt it . |
| 24 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |
| 25 | Simultaneously coaly umbrellas flew apart so that smoky sunlight bathed the devastation below . |
| 26 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |