Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] that i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 It needs a very large orchestra and I needed a lot of rehearsals so that I could have time to explain the piece fully to the orchestra .
2 And give me a pair of tongs so that I can take one out of the water at a time . ’
3 Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights .
4 You spoke when your face was turned away from me ’ or ‘ I 'll move this vase of flowers so that I can see your face clearly . ’
5 The girls started to arrive and I looked busy with a pile of papers so that I would n't have to talk to them .
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