Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 2 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 3 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 4 | Ulam took his idea to Teller who developed and extended it so rapidly that the outlines of a practicable thermonuclear device were complete before the GEORGE shot ( 8 May 1951 ) ; this had been designed as part of the development programme for the classical Super which by that time had been junked . |
| 5 | Mrs Richards reached out and took Shelley 's hand , holding it so tightly that the nails dug into Shelley 's skin . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I mean , ’ says Howard , waving his arms about , ‘ I mean , is n't it perhaps just that the writers you deal with sort of live down to sort of your expectations ? |
| 7 | Lord Coke lays it down broadly that the staying of an action that has been unjustly brought is no consideration for a promise to pay money . |
| 8 | If you have judged the T and the square trim well — this comes with experience — you will be able to press it down so that the squared-off tip sits firmly under the top of the T and is held there . |
| 9 | Is it not enough that the government has a monopoly on war ? ’ |
| 10 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 11 | We peel it off so that the nails go into the wood itself . |
| 12 | History may point at Berlin and say it way here that the dream of communism started to curl up and die . |
| 13 | She let the champagne touch her mouth , then opened it slightly so that the clean coldness flushed the fatness of her lower lip and spilled from her teeth to her tongue . |
| 14 | Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings . |
| 15 | But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued , and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue , or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences . |
| 16 | You lower it in gently and sloosh it about so that the acid covers the surface . |
| 17 | Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke |