Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i be " in BNC.

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1 A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye .
2 Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot .
3 I wish I could make you happy , ’ he said , so sweetly and gently that I was ashamed of the laughter building up inside me , and of the thought , why he 's old enough to be my father .
4 ‘ Serious enough that I 'm following up on it .
5 I 'm sure the police would figure out quickly enough that I 'm hardly the criminal type . ’
6 I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter .
7 You can put down that I 'm here under duress because your friend , Dr Kingsley , forced me to it .
8 I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’
9 It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker .
10 By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do .
11 I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods .
12 So it is bread on both rods , except that I make a paste for the free-line rod so that I am still offering a bait on a weightless rig .
13 My attitude to doctors has been severely changed since then by having a kidney stone diagnosed as psychosomatic and ulcerative colitis as a stomach upset , so that I am far from reverential and have occasionally flirted with contempt unfairly .
14 Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance .
15 When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary .
16 You may be sure that I have now placed a regular order with CRA St Albans , my local stockist , so that I am not disappointed in the future .
17 I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there .
18 He tried to force his grin … he held his ground and the fear once again welled up inside me so that I was sick to my stomach .
19 So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening .
20 He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’
21 She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence …
22 So much so that I was totally unable to move .
23 Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result .
24 It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries .
25 Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking .
26 My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) .
27 I climbed on to the window-seat and drew the curtains , so that I was completely hidden .
28 Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose .
29 He remained staring at me , so that I was embarrassed .
30 The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first .
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