Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him .
2 Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies .
3 She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs .
4 With the scarf joint such breakages were minimised since the headstock section was grafted on so that its grain ran parallel with the neck 's pitch .
5 She spent hours in the stockroom , trying everything on so that she could describe each dress to Louise .
6 Wordy and intellectual , with only a small chance of success : the sort of play a cynic would say that producers put on so that they can feel good .
7 Fujitsu Ltd is having to cast around feverishly for ways to cut its costs , and says it will scale back its planned development projects on semiconductors to cut costs for new production facilities : ‘ We will more carefully choose which development projects to work on so that we will sell only profitable products , ’ a spokesman told Reuters in Tokyo , adding that the effect would be to trim the number of different chip products in its line by some 20% .
8 Or will he know when to jump , to pass the baton , Carl Lewis-like , on so that Fianna Fáil remain ahead of the posse ?
9 The warden said that she would turn the heating on so that the fiat would be warm and she would be there herself to welcome him home .
10 He finds time to talk to her and tell her what 's going on so that she 's never at a loss to deal with any situation .
11 Sort of keep on so that you 're building on that all the time so you think right okay I know how to do capital at the start , full stop at the end , keep that do n't let that go just cos I 'm concentrating on something else .
12 It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment .
13 A physiotherapist stated , for instance : ‘ What we want to develop in them is the motivation to try and tackle society , take it head on so that they can actually say I want to go and do this , I want to go and do something else . ’
14 Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking .
15 At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast .
16 In the opposite case the transistors 12 and are turned on so that the current direction in the phase winding is reversed .
17 Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners .
18 They 'll then pass the information on so that eventually everyone in the road knows .
19 And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less .
20 She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes .
21 I 'll put the water on so that I , I can have hot water on my head .
22 No I have it on so that you , I can hear you talk .
23 you 've got to keep your hand moving er but there 's a temptation to try to er put more on so that it is thicker you know , but it does n't work that way you know
24 And then your cloth on so that the cloth is n't sitting on the top because it 'll rust it , if it 's wet .
25 Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it .
26 Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he
27 Write down enough that you feel confident that if your mind blanks you 've got enough there to remind you what you want to say .
28 But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets .
29 It is imperative that you do not travel on your own , so if you need to use a lift and you find yourself alone , please hold the doors open until someone else comes along so that you can share the facility .
30 Dinner was hurried along so that the whole party could be in the study to watch the television programme ‘ News and Sport ’ .
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