Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 2 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 3 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so lucky that I turned away , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 6 | Mostly , I feel so inadequate that I think almost anyone could do the job better than I. I mean , Karen 's trained and Edna s had a lifetime s experience . |
| 7 | I am usually so well that I bear even mild illness badly . |
| 8 | She had become so beautiful that I felt very distant from her . |
| 9 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 10 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 11 | Once , in a crowded bar I was forced into conversation with two ladies who were so disappointed that I felt quite guilty . |
| 12 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 13 | I was terribly disappointed that I got only two " O " levels — for English Language and history . |
| 14 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 15 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 16 | but obviously I must succeed for Yorkshire first , and with a batsman , Sachin Tendulkar , joining us instead of another quick bowler it is more than ever important that I do so . ’ |
| 17 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 18 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 19 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 20 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 21 | They were a very bright and energetic body of Indians ; indeed the most intelligent that I had ever seen . |
| 22 | It was clear that Geoffrey Howe and myself would be the also-rans , but I was a little surprised that I ran so badly . |