Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 2 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 3 | It is perhaps surprising that he did not count and find that he had double the actual number present , but he , too , has departed . |
| 4 | That he had quite the opposite intention was obvious . |
| 5 | Working with creatures of such speed it was important that he used exactly the right type of camera . |
| 6 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 7 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |