Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 2 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 3 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 4 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 5 | So much so that it inspired Sophie to give several children 's classes in Norwich . |
| 6 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 7 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 8 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 9 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 10 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 11 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 12 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 13 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 14 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 15 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 16 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 17 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 18 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 19 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 22 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 23 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 24 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 25 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 26 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 27 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 28 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |
| 29 | It was so long ago that it happened — it 's an everyday occurrence now , people battering and killing children . |
| 30 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |