Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 3 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 4 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 5 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 6 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 7 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 8 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 9 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 10 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 11 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 12 | However , Mr Major made his frankest admission so far that the Tory campaign had been dogged by the recession . |
| 13 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 14 | They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’ |
| 15 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 16 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 17 | He relates it to Lennie so often that he almost begins to believe it himself , although underneath he knows that it can never happen . |
| 18 | British Rail have refused to put lifts in , we 've managed to persuade them to put ramps in so that people could actually carry luggage up the stairs , and people could be wheeled up the stairs . |
| 19 | She defended her case so well that the prior gave judgement in her favour . |
| 20 | Finally , if asked to do so , tie all the scripts together so that none goes astray . |
| 21 | Could the government not spend the money better now that the Soviet Union , the last obvious threat to Swiss independence , has gone away ? |
| 22 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 23 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 24 | Whatever floor that Ann 's been on has n't done something like put some money in so that they can take em somewhere else something like over in France or something like that . |
| 25 | Think about how you will read the story aloud so that your listener will find it interesting and amusing . |
| 26 | In the end they had abandoned the search , set the Prince down so that he could report the incident at once , and sailed on to Bulak . |
| 27 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 28 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 29 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 30 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |