Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 2 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 3 | Trent turned his body slowly so that he could get his hands on the rope . |
| 4 | ‘ When he found you had walked out he said rather pointedly that he would walk Claudine to her car . |
| 5 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |
| 6 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 7 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 8 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 9 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 10 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 11 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 12 | Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it . |
| 13 | The author also hinted yesterday at fresh scandals to come which would damage Prince Charles ' reputation so badly that he could never become King . |
| 14 | He hit one so hard that he later died , and injured another so badly that he is still in hospital . |
| 15 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 16 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 19 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 20 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 21 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 22 | The winning artists were presented with their cash prizes by John Wood Group PLC chairman and managing director , Ian Wood and guest judge Ralph Steadman , who stayed on especially so that he could attend the presentation . |
| 23 | Will the Chancellor of the Duchy reconsider his decision and pay a visit to the north-west , especially so that he can meet the 800 people a week who have lost their job since this time last year as a result of the Government 's policies ? |
| 24 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 25 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 26 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 27 | There , too , he was overwhelmed by what he saw ; so much so that he went back with Hanns for a hectic fortnight at the end of September . |
| 28 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 29 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 30 | Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand . |