Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two antimony pH probes ( Monocrystant Mod 0011 , Synectics Medical , Sweden ) were calibrated at Ph 1 and 7 at 35°C before the study and then passed transnasally so that the upper probe lay 5 cm proximal to the upper border of the manometrically determined lower oesophageal sphincter and the lower probe 10 cm distal to its lower border . |
| 2 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 3 | ‘ When we — I realised right away that I was the first man to … |
| 4 | On September 17 Izvestiya reported that the situation had " normalized " , but it became clear later that the dangers had not been fully appreciated at the time due to a lack of sophisticated monitoring equipment . |
| 5 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |
| 6 | It was Neil Spencer , editor of NME , suggesting rather embarrassedly that I come and see him . |
| 7 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 8 | Mike Teague would also be put out if his comeback with second division Moseley were to go so well that he 's in contention for a place . |
| 9 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 10 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 11 | I realized long ago that the only thing he has in common with other men is the prick between his legs . |
| 12 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 13 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 14 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 15 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 16 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 17 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 18 | In John the Baptist s ministry you find the fulfilment of the prophecies made long ago that a messenger would come to prepare the way of the Lord . |
| 19 | The specific grant , introduced in April 1991 , should encourage authorities to plan together so that a broad spectrum of services is developed and there are no gaps for individual patients to fall down . |
| 20 | With anxiety uppermost , she flicked an abstracted glance to her rear-view mirror and , oh , grief , she thought , realising only then that the road she was on being more of a lane really , she was stuck bang in the middle of it and there was a sleek black Mercedes sat behind her , patiently waiting to pass . |
| 21 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 22 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 23 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 24 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 25 | Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them . |
| 26 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 27 | This apparently arose because of the dryness of the site chosen ; an equivalent set left on the ground in much damper conditions disintegrated so quickly that no trace of them or their contents remained after 10 months . |
| 28 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 29 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 30 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |