Example sentences of "[adv] that we [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 2 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 3 | It moved over to the north before it reached the camp , so that we never heard much of the thunder . |
| 4 | He performed his tasks at WGIC apparently too well , so that we subsequently had great difficulty in getting him back ! |
| 5 | GUN LAW : ‘ There are more guns down there now that we ever thought possible . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There are more guns there now that we ever thought possible . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We know now that we really lost the tie in Moscow , when we made the mistake of trying to chase the game instead of playing it tight . ’ |
| 8 | Trainer Lord Huntingdon said : ‘ The Queen so wanted to win the race again that we originally had two in it , but we took Piquant out and relied on Set The Fashion . |
| 9 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 10 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |