Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend .
2 But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged .
3 In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ .
4 It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) .
5 In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to .
6 Now that I seek myself in a serpent
7 The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group .
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