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 History may point at Berlin and say it way here that the dream of communism started to curl up and die .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke
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