Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 2 | The Queen became so fond of me that she could not eat without me . |
| 3 | Sometime she felt so fond of him that she inclined to a belief in reincarnation , feeling that they must once have been twins : she understood him far too well for her peace of mind , and she knew why her brothers detested him ; apart from the fact that they were racists , they were baffled by his charm and his after-shave . |
| 4 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 5 | It 's because I 'm so deuced fond of you that I 've got to speak out . ’ |
| 6 | It was typical of him that he ‘ allowed everybody to ride it ’ . |
| 7 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 8 | This remark was so uncharacteristic of her that I am sure it was fully meant . |
| 9 | He was so conscious of her that everything about her was vividly present to him . |
| 10 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 11 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 12 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 13 | The gun was a genuine late-Victorian revolver ( another anachronism in a film so full of them that its period could be any time between 1700 and 1900 ) . |
| 14 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 15 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 16 | Dust gets into everything : my white underwear became pink , and my ears were so full of it that my hearing was impaired . |
| 17 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 18 | Its classical central waiting-room had a touch of the first Euston about it , eighty years removed , and South Australian railways were so proud of it that they promptly published a booklet providing statistics of its dimensions , quantities of building materials used , and so on . |
| 19 | She was so powerfully aware of him that she could feel the ripples of panic beginning to spread . |
| 20 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 21 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 22 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 23 | Many people are so frightened of him that they are afraid to say his name . ’ |
| 24 | But this I may say , that it seems unworthy of you that you should be too angry over this affair . ’ |