Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 2 | It was Neil Spencer , editor of NME , suggesting rather embarrassedly that I come and see him . |
| 3 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 4 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 5 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 6 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 7 | With anxiety uppermost , she flicked an abstracted glance to her rear-view mirror and , oh , grief , she thought , realising only then that the road she was on being more of a lane really , she was stuck bang in the middle of it and there was a sleek black Mercedes sat behind her , patiently waiting to pass . |
| 8 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 9 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 10 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 11 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 12 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 13 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 14 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 15 | ‘ How are you going to introduce me ? ’ she asked tartly , denying most vigorously that she could be jealous in any remote way . |
| 16 | Miss Honey was walking slowly so that the small child could keep up with her without trotting too fast , and it was very peaceful out there on the narrow road now that the village was behind them . |
| 17 | The pod was now shuddering so violently that Defries 's voice was distorted . |
| 18 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 19 | Well that 's as far as I want to go with this , this particular topic , erm as is my practice I 'm ending now so that we can have questions . |
| 20 | The adoral shields are long with a straight proximal edge and widening distally so that they separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 21 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear . |
| 23 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 24 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 25 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 26 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 27 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 28 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 29 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 30 | By the time of the next cabinet reshuffle , the Prime Minister will probably announce that all the departments are operating so splendidly that there is no more need for it . |