Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Emerson , ’ Travis McKenna returned smoothly , easing the chair sideways so that he could cross his legs . |
| 2 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 3 | Holding the glass tightly so that her hand would n't shake , she sipped the cool water , then met his gaze . |
| 4 | Instead of kicking the ball high so that it splashed down into a lake and bounced backwards , as Going did on that ludicrous day , the Australians and New Zealanders took advantage of the wide open spaces in sevens and kicked long , flat balls which stopped dead in the water . |
| 5 | She imagined the telephone tone bleeping out in the iron-grey sitting-room overlooking the Thames , her fist gripping the receiver so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 6 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 7 | " No , " Quiss said , shaking the attendant roughly so that the crownless brim round its cowl fell off , " I , " he shook it again , sending the thing 's hood flying off its head and revealing the smooth continuation of the mask over the creature 's skull , so that its little arms waggled trying to put the hood back on again as Quiss finished , " did n't . " |
| 8 | ‘ Slowly , ’ he warned and backed the tiny storm jib , making the sheet fast so that the breeze would hold them clear of the Baglietto 's stern . |
| 9 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 10 | reporter to erm again join with him in beating the drum formally so that it moves on the A twelve and the other issues was over , something which we can easily draw attention to civil servant and of |
| 11 | Hitting the child harder so that ‘ he will see what it 's like ’ will probably only increase his anger and need for vengeance — besides teaching him that if you are bigger and stronger , -you can always win . |
| 12 | What you are doing is feeling the music so deeply that you are playing a 5/4 bar . |
| 13 | We might suppose that we could pin down which slit the electron goes through by mounting the slits independently so that the one that deflects the electron onto the screen will signal this by recoiling . |