Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cloth on the table was so stiffly starched that it stuck out at the corners . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the material at the tide-line was so sloppy that it ran out of the probe and no cores were brought home . |
| 3 | Pearce encapsulates it as each generation ensuring that it passes on to the next an undiminished stock of assets , including environmental as well as man-made capital . |
| 4 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |
| 5 | Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle . |
| 6 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 7 | There was always a pause , in the pit , some law , that it levelled out before the spew . |
| 8 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 9 | Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle . |
| 10 | civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . |
| 11 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 12 | They 've brought it forward a little , so that it comes out in the last week of April — after the newspaper pieces . |
| 13 | I want you , I want to make love to you again , ’ he said thickly , tugging her hair from its unruly topknot , so that it spread out on the pillows in a golden cloud , stroking slow , drugging caresses the length of her spread body . |
| 14 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 15 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 16 | The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me . |
| 17 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 18 | She set down his drink so hard that it sloshed out of the glass . |
| 19 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 20 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 21 | When wallpapering a room , pin a left-over length inside a wardrobe or cupboard door so that it ages along with the paper on the walls . |