Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The final stage of the evaporation of a black hole would proceed so rapidly that it would end in a tremendous explosion . |
| 32 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 33 | Okay so what did I have here so that when I differentiated I got X ? |
| 34 | They had decided to pray to Jesus , asking that they could die too so that they could be with their Mum who they missed so much . |
| 35 | My only worry is that , with the ground drying up , they might go so fast that he gets disheartened . |
| 36 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |
| 37 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 38 | I wished he would go away so that I could go upstairs and look at all my clothes . |
| 39 | After thinking for a moment he added that Wilner should go home so that if anything untoward happened he could ‘ tell people what it was ’ ! |
| 40 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |
| 41 | Let's admit straight away that Robin Blackburn has a point ( Letters , 3 April ) . |
| 42 | I do n't realise even now that we will not go back . |
| 43 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 44 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 45 | Would she let him go again now that the kitty was empty ? |
| 46 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
| 47 | Some of the older ones would get together so that they had ginormous piles of rubbish . |
| 48 | But do n't get so tiddly that you keep hiccoughing , or giggle all the way through , especially at your own jokes before you reach the punchline . |
| 49 | You must never diet so quickly that you lose the muscle tissue that gives your body its shape , firmness , and definition . |
| 50 | That 's what I thought I should think dad 'll come home now that he 's gone . |
| 51 | Luke could scarcely underline more strongly that the supreme object of prayer is the Holy Spirit of God . |
| 52 | If that man is out there and he is innocent then please would he come forward so that we can eliminate him from the inquiry |
| 53 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 54 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 55 | If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters . |
| 56 | He said : ‘ I can sing so quietly that from two metres you will not hear me ! ’ |
| 57 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 58 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 59 | This work should start immediately so that a schedule for 1992 can be drawn up . |
| 60 | I ca n't emphasise too strongly that preparing for a marathon involved retaining normal routine as much as possible , not abandoning it . |