Example sentences of "[adv] that he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 2 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 3 | It seems likely that he owed his remarkable escape to the fact that his house lay right on the fringe of the nuee ardente , in the extreme south-east of the town , so that he escaped its worst effects . |
| 4 | Everything was in shadow , for the tiers of gas candles — an excellent improvement , that — were dimming , slowly , slowly , taking the sight of his daughters and his wife away from him , so that he found himself alone , as he began to sing . |
| 5 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 6 | He swallowed his pride and kept quiet , but was so furious when he got home that he hurled his hated casts into the coalbin . |
| 7 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had an impression for over a year now that he meets someone special at these conventions . |
| 9 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 10 | You knew perfectly well that he held me responsible for Eddie 's death as well as other things ! ’ |
| 11 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 12 | It was here that he met his future wife , Jan , and the pair eventually set up their own practice . |
| 13 | It was then that he sensed her extreme youth ; the twin globes of her dark breasts with their sharp , neat points were hard and solid , her skin , a deep indigo in the near-blackness , was velvet-smooth , entirely without hair . |
| 14 | It was then that he felt his true strength as an eagle coming at last . |
| 15 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 16 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 17 | During World War Two , he went into naval research as a lieutenant , working on a thermal-guided missile and other projects , and it was there that he met his future partner , Ibuka . |
| 18 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |