Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 2 | The opening pages are ravishing : exquisite cor anglais and oboe plaints , the tenderest of string bass solos , and an organ so discreetly reassuring that it sounds locked deep in the subconscious . |
| 3 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 4 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |
| 5 | This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece . |
| 6 | When she got downstairs they were both waiting for her , so obviously waiting that she stopped dead and looked alarmed . |
| 7 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 8 | Some were very short descriptive items , perhaps just mentioning that a person ( or persons ) had appeared on a remand hearing in court . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's bad enough just knowing that Isabelle was having an affair with a married man while she was supposed to be engaged to his brother . |
| 10 | So just mentioning that at the moment causes confusion , you do n't know what it is . |
| 11 | We are only just realising that this is the first calling from which all else must flow . |
| 12 | About to bite into the sandwich again he stopped suddenly , as if only just realising that Denis still had the gun pointing at him . |
| 13 | I 'm only just realizing that I did . ’ |
| 14 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 15 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 16 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 17 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 18 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 19 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 20 | He stepped from the dais and glanced back , only now noticing that the altar stone was n't quite set in place , and that there was a thin gap beneath one end , which seemed to indicate that there was another pit beneath the stone . |
| 21 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 22 | She knew that Rosemary was n't back yet either , and , with Naylor not long ago saying that Travis was back , Leith realised that logically there was every chance that her caller could be her guest 's cousin . |
| 23 | No , I , it 's an enormous sum I mean I do n't think anybody in the West is spending er as much as ten percent on armaments and er I heard a on television not so long ago saying that in eighty percent of their industry is on armaments . |
| 24 | So it remains to be seen whether we may have such a network , or perhaps even assuming that nearly all the cheap oil runs out , whether we might in fact manufacture petrol artificially from wood , coal , or gas , simply to provide the excellent fuel with its wonderful storage characteristics for long distance transport . |
| 25 | Fearful , utterly unaware now of the two men near by , she let her eyes move slowly up the document , seeing other names but only vaguely noting that she was scanning a list of some sort . |
| 26 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 27 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 28 | Right , just like reading that through , I 'll give you the Readers Digest version , and then you can ask me any questions to fill in , there 's er , quite a bit to tell . |
| 29 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 30 | Shorn of all element of compulsion , now that the United States was no longer even pretending that the dollar was convertible into gold , the rise in official holdings of dollars showed that dollars were the best asset to hold . |