Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [that] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday .
2 So far , Intergraph is more than satisfied that it made the correct decision when it selected Chameleon .
3 A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it .
4 A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it .
5 Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom .
6 It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life .
7 In fact , the response was so uniform and repetitious that it started to irritate him before long .
8 First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this .
9 It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers .
10 I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes .
11 The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words .
12 That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing .
13 And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward .
14 Why this silence , a silence so unexpected and inexplicable that it screamed ‘ Listen to me ! ’
15 This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness .
16 It was as though all the pain and grief inside her was so heavy and immense that it had totally stunned her .
17 It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm .
18 An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision .
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