Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 3 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 4 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 5 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |
| 6 | So much so that I had to threaten to call the police . ’ |
| 7 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 8 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 9 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 10 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 11 | Just so that I 've got some idea of er |
| 12 | So that I 've got room to walk . |
| 13 | I ca n't do it , so that I 've got to get full marks for the exam to pass , without the other two bits on it , I ca n't do that |
| 14 | Really so that I 've got more lines up there , not like , when they 're I 've got plenty of lines you see . |
| 15 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 16 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 17 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 18 | He thinks it 's fun to hang onto the back of my coat with a grip of iron , so that I have to take my coat off and pry him loose . |
| 19 | So it adds up to something ambivalent about him , so much so that I have to wonder . |
| 20 | My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church . |
| 21 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 22 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 23 | So that I think has been the biggest , communication-wise , has been the biggest step forward in a more erm friendly and er happier sort of note we , we were one of the few brigades that started a band . |
| 24 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 25 | " Apart from being stably slimmer in that I have managed to maintain the weight loss this time , I feel a great deal better in myself . |
| 26 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 27 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 28 | Not only that I 've got ta fit in like the children as well . |
| 29 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 30 | I did n't know where I was , only that I wanted to leave . |