Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 2 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 3 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 4 | Largely because the Alliance , especially its weightiest backer , Mr Helmut Kohl , clearly drummed home that it aimed for quick German unity , with D-marks in the East ‘ within months ’ . |
| 5 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 6 | Before that she worked for several companies in Taiwan , the last one being Coca-Cola . |