Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book sold so well locally that she 's now published it for sale countrywide ; available from WH Smith , Sherratt & Hughes and Waterstone 's bookshops or direct from Barbara Geere at 15 Stamford Drive , Bromley , Kent BR2 0XF ( 081–460 3646 ) , priced £2.30 ( inc p&p ) . |
| 2 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 3 | Passing close to , and parallel with , Sturgis ' southbound command , the Nez Perce band silently traversed the now unguarded Clark 's Fork Canyon , ‘ where rocks on either side came so near together that two horses abreast could hardly pass ’ . |
| 4 | He came so often afterwards that Ackroyd began to look out for him when Saturday came round . |
| 5 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 6 | The he made a U turn and drove away so rapidly that she could not make out his number , only the red tail light diminishing , at more than legal speed , down the deserted Embankment . |
| 7 | Dana did n't need her care — on the contrary , she showed only too clearly that she resented her twin 's interference . |
| 8 | His decision was taken , and the orders sent out for the triple muster , yet even after news from the northern border confirmed only too clearly that Scotland intended to take a full part in the harrying of his realm , he was slow to move . |
| 9 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 10 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 11 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 12 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 13 | Léonie frowned very hard so that she would not cry . |
| 14 | Yet many of the teachers we interviewed , far from being unaware of this risk , perceived only too clearly that it was inherent to the LEA 's preferred combination of group work and multiple curriculum focus teaching . |
| 15 | In Edinburgh I discovered all too soon that Sylvia Grey was not there either . |
| 16 | To Clasper 's disgust , the majority had voted against his recommended call for strike action and he now sensed all too painfully that he was beginning to lose control of his members . |
| 17 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 18 | Yet I remember a woman who , only a few days ago , swore just as vehemently that she had n't stolen it . ’ |
| 19 | Instead they park them in a special nursery area , packed tightly together so that the loss of heat from their bare bodies is minimised . |
| 20 | That more likely is that you realised well nigh immediately that it was Mr , that 's why you said to Mr I 'm arresting you for harbouring an escapee . |
| 21 | And I knew all too well that we possess our lover only in our minds , that passionate love is incom-patible with life . |
| 22 | But Sairellen knew all too well that had Luke not been delirious with fever that day he would surely have marched to Halifax ; not with a pitchfork or a flail or a home-made pike in his hands , since he had never been a " physical force " man but there , just the same . |
| 23 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 24 | Galileo knew only too well that it could , if the province of biblical authority were not scrupulously defined . |
| 25 | Laker knew only too well that the name which had once been an asset in the world of aviation was now a liability . |
| 26 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 27 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 28 | But actually the Greeks in their most creative period knew only too well that the basis of existence is horrific . |
| 29 | And once Julius had made his mind up about something , Jessamy knew only too well that he never changed it . |
| 30 | She knew only too well that his bed probably would n't be empty ; was he so desperately in need of fresh conquests that he would attempt to seduce Shae while Marianne kicked her heels downstairs , awaiting her turn ? |