Example sentences of "[adv] [det] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's so little that we re-make everything to her size . |
| 3 | Some enjoyed themselves so much that they formed their own team in the league . |
| 4 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 5 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 6 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 7 | Who could the woman be , who admired him so much that she sent him a valentine ? |
| 8 | Princess Anne 's daughter , Zara likes Sugar & Spice by Little Miss Perfumes so much that she bought her school friends sets for Christmas ! |
| 9 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 10 | But he would n't , and redoubled his efforts with her hand , using it as his instrument until she hated what he was doing so much that she shook her head on the pillow and whispered , " No — please — no ! " |
| 11 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 12 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 13 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 14 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 15 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 16 | His much loved wife , Anne of Bohemia , died in 1394 , and this affected him so much that he felt everyone and everything was against him . |
| 17 | He did NOT write these words : ‘ God loved the brainy people and attractive people in the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that anyone with 8 GCSEs , 3 A-Levels and loads of friends may not die but have eternal life ’ ! ! |
| 18 | Too shocked , too intensely angry to speak , she contemptuously passed the document to him with a hand that shook so much that he steadied it with his , an expression close to pity on his face as he carefully extracted the paper from her numb fingers . |
| 19 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 20 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 21 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
| 22 | Her comments alongside her weekly measuring sessions said so much that I felt you would enjoy reading them too : |
| 23 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 24 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 25 | He wants me to hate myself so much that I destroy myself . |
| 26 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 27 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 28 | I hate doing it so much that I think I will find just one more excuse to put off the preaching . |
| 29 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 30 | You may not want to get up and run a race immediately after eating but you should not eat so much that you find it difficult to climb a flight of stairs . |