Example sentences of "[adj] that i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 And this lot is some that I took down here .
2 It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone .
3 I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks .
4 Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon .
5 ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood .
6 You glad that I cleaned up ?
7 Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it .
8 It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions .
9 But the prospect of even more income from the delivery , made it all the more imperative that I got on and off Fraxilly safely .
10 ‘ There are two reasons why I wanted to be sure that I met up with you after school today . ’
11 I was hanging from my wing down the length of the pole , the wind strong enough to pull and toss my body against it , and each time it did the pain at my wing was so terrible that I cried out .
12 ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’
13 I was just thankful that I got out when I did .
14 The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones .
15 ‘ You should be furious that I ran out on you at such an important time . ’
16 I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon .
17 In fact , I felt so wonderful that I glanced back at Old Red .
18 ‘ I was so annoyed that I blurted out : ‘ Good God !
19 It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt .
20 So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ?
21 She looked so utterly pathetic that I bent down and comforted her silently , stroking her hair , kissing her face .
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