Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 2 | I suddenly realised that she really did n't want to lose me . |
| 3 | I suddenly realised that I actually knew how to use a library . |
| 4 | Suddenly realising that she no longer had their attention , and that they were both listening to a woman 's voice loudly exclaiming from outside , she lamely tailed off . |
| 5 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 6 | It can not be too highly stressed that nobody else can exercise your subject/class choice but you . |
| 7 | Only say that you still love me . ’ |
| 8 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 9 | The patrol pounced and grabbed the surprised Germans , only to discover that they also had no water with them . |
| 10 | No doubt you are among the many who have tried every diet around only to find that they just did n't work . |
| 11 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 12 | In many higher insects the maxillae are so greatly modified that they no longer retain any evidences of their primitive structure . |
| 13 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 14 | The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out . |
| 15 | The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface . |
| 16 | The Labour party should be pleased about that , but , because those industries are its old power base , it naturally regrets that it no longer has trade union members coming from that source . |
| 17 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 18 | She felt a change , felt it as though she overheard a secret , and now , sipping at her delicious cocoa , she could only suspect that something really nasty was coming next . |
| 19 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 20 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 21 | You can make pleas for extra schemes but if you do so I could only suggest that you also accompany it with one that you would rather er is not done , so there are actually replacements rather than additions . |
| 22 | We can only hope that their soon to be announced UK distributor is as helpful in sorting out these little problems . |
| 23 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 24 | I do so hope that you never fall prey to any of the crippling diseases within our society because maybe then you will come to appreciate the need for these experiments . |
| 25 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
| 26 | Currently fed by a saline stream and limited snow-melt , its salinity , dominated by calcium chloride , is about 13 times that of sea water , and high enough to ensure that it seldom if ever freezes . |
| 27 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 28 | If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar . |
| 29 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 30 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |