Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | ‘ When we — I realised right away that I was the first man to … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |
| 5 | I realized long ago that the only thing he has in common with other men is the prick between his legs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 8 | Indeed , Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is a clear decision to the contrary since it laid down unequivocally that an act may be an appropriation notwithstanding that it is done with the consent of the owner . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a cool challenge , drawled so quietly that she almost missed it . |
| 18 | ‘ I certainly sha n't speak to her until she starts replying to my letters , ’ said Lord Grubb , cued in so that it was possible to say it at last . |
| 19 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 20 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 21 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 22 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |
| 23 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 24 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 25 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 26 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 27 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 28 | The white father promised long ago that I could go back to my home , but the white men are big liars . |
| 29 | Five short days ; it was n't long in which to have your life turned upside-down , changed so drastically that it would never be the same again , was it ? |
| 30 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |