Example sentences of "[det] that i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These documents appear to be expanding in length daily , but the principal provisions tend to remain constant , and it is because of this that I have felt able to expound a series of amendments which I believe a commercial conveyancer should have in mind in considering the draft documentation . |
| 2 | So appealing a plant do I find this that I have planted a ‘ fairy ring ’ of eight where the hurricane left a space . |
| 3 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 4 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 5 | It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy ! |
| 6 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 7 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 8 | Do I really hate my life or myself so much that I want to die ? |
| 9 | ‘ Cricket gave me so much that I want to put something back into the game and teaching the youngsters how to play is a rewarding way of doing it . |
| 10 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 11 | The knocking annoyed me so much that I tried to open the window . |
| 12 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 13 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I have said all that I wish to say to you girls except , Mildred , that you will write one hundred lines which will say , ‘ I must try very hard not to be quite so silly . ’ |
| 15 | It is not proposed to discuss the aesthetics of this usage for the text writer ; all that I wish to say is that it should not be copied by the student , for in his mouth it sounds too grandiloquent . |
| 16 | I had all that I had wanted , peace and privacy , a day to myself before Crispin came , and an absolute compulsion to stay indoors and take another look at the poem that had been broken into by the tutorial in Cambridge . |
| 17 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the sheer mystery of all that I had to behold on arrival at an up-to-date operational station . |
| 19 | I told her all that I had read of him . |
| 20 | Is that all that I 've done ? |
| 21 | TOM : You know what 's amazed me most of all that I 've seen is Big Tree . |
| 22 | And yes , Robyn , I can very well afford it , and more besides , but I 've worked damned hard for all that I 've achieved , so you can stop spoiling things with comments like that ! ’ |
| 23 | Green Onion , all that I 've got all . |
| 24 | After all that I 've left ciggies in the car . |
| 25 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 26 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 27 | Underpinning all that I have written is an assumption … that the education process must be based upon the child . |
| 28 | ‘ All that I have done today has gone amiss ’ , he says ( II , 17 ) ; ‘ Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss ’ ( II , 28 ) ; ‘ And now may I make a right choice , and change the evil fate of this unhappy day ! ’ |
| 29 | There was no escape : ‘ I am a part of all that I have met . ’ |
| 30 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |