Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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1 If anyone puts a verse like that on my headstone , I 'm warning them right now that I 'll get up and haunt them for ever .
2 Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man .
3 Er we we make that quite plain to them all right that there might be a delay .
4 But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’
5 ‘ And the third man who … said he loved me … ’ and her voice faltered at the words ‘ … loved me so dearly that on hearing the slanders of my assailant he believed every word that he said , and none of mine .
6 Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ?
7 She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’
8 I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage .
9 ‘ You liked me so much that you walked out on me ! ’
10 ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her .
11 The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer .
12 Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued .
13 I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy .
14 The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest .
15 However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died .
16 ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us .
17 The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging .
18 Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe .
19 Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects .
20 You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair .
21 These rolls were a speciality of Baden , and the people of Zurich liked them so much that a special train used to leave Baden early every morning so that they were in Zurich fresh and in time for breakfast .
22 She was kneading the gloves in her lap , gripping them so tightly that her knuckles showed white .
23 Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch .
24 After they have done this , tell them to return all the cards to the pack and to shuffle them together so that you can not possibly know where they were .
25 For punchcard machines , you may find it easier to punch out two cards , turn one over to the ‘ blank ’ side and clip them together so that the design is continuous .
26 All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing .
27 Mix them together so that you have a sticky paste .
28 I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot .
29 No okay what you need to do , what I want you to do now is just pick some of these numbers and multiply them together so that you get forty five .
30 ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ she said , ‘ you told me only yesterday that you did n't want any children .
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