Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 2 | And you work all of those out so that you just play with them just get to know them so that you 're happy with them . |
| 3 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 4 | In the Soviet Union the party and government bureaucracies issued a mass of rules and regulations — so many , in fact , that sometimes ways had to be found to circumvent them so that the system would not grind to a halt . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean it simply did n't cross your mind to inform me yesterday that you have no insurance ? ’ |
| 6 | I am pleased to inform you however that the Council the British Association of Sport and Medicine Scotland have persuaded the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland to include voluntary sports medicine care in the lowest subscription category along with advisory services and ‘ Good Samaritan ’ work . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to inform you now that [ my government ] will oppose approval of the draft oilseed accord by all means agreed between member states . ’ |
| 8 | She did n't want to hear , but her mother said she ought to know everything so that when Martha was dead and gone and Jennifer had children of her own , she would be able to tell them too . |
| 9 | She was a complete recluse , but one of us somehow got to know her so that he could come and count the nests in the heronry and explore the island . |
| 10 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 11 | Once you know your daily calorie intake it is easy to adjust it so that you gain or lose weight . |
| 12 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 13 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 14 | For model conversations which are based on questions and answers , it is relatively easy to design them so that each conversation , introduces a different question word and preposition or case ending , together with a new tense , aspect , mood or word class . |
| 15 | Has remarkable habit of dropping bones from a height on to a hard surface to split them so that it can eat the marrow . |
| 16 | If you do not already have a Midland Current Account , you will need to open one so that your monthly repayments can be set up . |
| 17 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 18 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 19 | There was no power ‘ to arrest anyone so that they can make inquiries about him ’ . |
| 20 | I came in yesterday cos I had to decorate it so that er get it tiled , and get it furnished and |
| 21 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 22 | I was so excited to see you again that I completely forgot to ask what 's happened to your business . |
| 23 | Erm , I 've endorsed the comments that 've been made I think the er congratulations , and can I say I 've got a sneaking feeling originally , this paper was put on the agenda to embarrass me so that the records department can get the new shelves I originally blocked . |
| 24 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 25 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 26 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 27 | Instead of privatizing the health service , I wanted to modernize it so that it could better tackle the problems of the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 28 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
| 29 | So what I 've got to do is to try and get down to that , but do I actually stop the mallet dead when it , as it hits the blue , because if , I do n't wan na move the blue ball , but , if , if I was to play it like that it would be an obvious crush the ball into the mallet . |
| 30 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |