Example sentences of "[adv] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 2 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 3 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 4 | Would it be false if I could actually ‘ throw my voice ’ so that it seemed to come from somewhere else ? |
| 5 | The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow . |
| 6 | There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds . |
| 7 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 8 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 9 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 10 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 11 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 12 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 13 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 14 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 15 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 16 | This passage or corridor was carpeted in moss green , now faded and stained in places from water and the urine of nervous animals , so that it looked more like some natural substance , moss or close-cut turf , than man-made carpet . |
| 17 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 18 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 19 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 20 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 21 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 22 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 23 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 24 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |
| 25 | All this time we were still trying to fix up Denmark Street so that it became vaguely comfortable . |
| 26 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 27 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 28 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 29 | Transfers and new appointments were made from the mainland to BBC Northern Ireland so that it became almost as firmly a government instrument as , for instance , the army 's information office in Lisburn . |
| 30 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |