Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I have it on so that you , I can hear you talk . |
| 2 | Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he |
| 3 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 4 | and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ? |
| 5 | He switched on the torch , but directed it upward so that there was only diffused light on the forest floor . |
| 6 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 7 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 8 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 9 | Why is it only recently that Humberside has become a more attractive growth point for industries ? |
| 10 | Why is it only recently that we have started taking cases up ? |
| 11 | Asked one angry betting shop punter : ‘ Why is it only afterwards that we hear of a betting coup ? |
| 12 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 15 | The one who was sharing Tony 's bed — and sharing it so enthusiastically that neither of them heard Folly 's approaching footsteps until she walked right into the room . |
| 16 | This dynamic man had entered her life with an explosive force , and he had damaged her secure little world , altering it so drastically that she would never be the same Claudia who had happily spent her days and most of her evenings designing dresses for other girls to wear . |
| 17 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 18 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 19 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 20 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 21 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 22 | Travel wholesaling is common practice today but Cooks pioneered it so successfully that they were issuing printed standard contracts to their agents by 1884 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 25 | Dougal reached for it so quickly that he knocked over one of his candles . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 28 | The leading actor had believed in it so heartily that he had kicked it in mid-speech and got his foot embedded in it . |
| 29 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 30 | 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 . |