Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 2 | As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out . |
| 3 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 4 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 5 | It does help and he twisted it so that you can put your ornaments there and there you see |
| 6 | He banged it so that it would bend . |
| 7 | even if you played it like that it 's still a crush . |
| 8 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 9 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 10 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 11 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 12 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 13 | Bruce Dern said Corman did him and Nicholson a favour by getting them a part because they both needed the money at the time ; Corman arranged it so that their shooting schedules would require them to be available for the first and last weeks of the four-week stint , thus , under union rules guaranteeing them a salary cheque for the full four weeks . |
| 14 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |
| 15 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 16 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 17 | Paul worked it out that she must be one of Dr Heatherton 's daughters by his first marriage . |
| 18 | I worked it out that it was since the beginning of the recession , since 1989 , that I 've been redundant . ’ |
| 19 | He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace . |
| 20 | I recall from when I saw it later that it made excellent footage . |
| 21 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 22 | They felt it right that Wendy did not see him die . |
| 23 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 24 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 25 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 26 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 27 | ‘ He probably thought it better that you did n't know . |
| 28 | He pulled a wooden chair away from the table and brought it so that he could sit opposite to her . |
| 29 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 30 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |