Example sentences of "[adv] that [prep] [art] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 2 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 3 | If I beckon , she will certainly come to me ! he thought , and his mind whirled , so that for a moment he barely saw the waiting Fiana candidates and the glittering Sun Chamber . |
| 4 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 5 | Then he felt resentful for being made to feel guilty , so that by the time he got back to the Questura all the benefits of his walk had been cancelled out . |
| 6 | He was an administrator now as well as a detective , so that in the morning he had a report to write , two interviews to conduct , while in the afternoon he must drive to central London to attend a committee . |
| 7 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 8 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 9 | After a discussion in a staff meeting about the gifts of the Spirit , I remember one of our church planters announcing firmly that in the church he was planting he would forbid anyone to speak in tongues in public ! |