Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 2 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
| 3 | Also , the biggest point in his favour was the way he remembered her so well that he not only had not minded admitting it to me , but had been very nice in the process . |
| 4 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 5 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 6 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 7 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 8 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 9 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 10 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 11 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 13 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 14 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 15 | He 'd made her love him purely so that he could reject her in public . |
| 16 | So I left her £10 and asked her to please tell the warden if she saw her again so that he could call me with any news . |
| 17 | Mr Reynolds was also given information about the operation and what would happen to him afterwards so that he knew what to expect . |
| 18 | Dougal reached for it so quickly that he knocked over one of his candles . |
| 19 | The leading actor had believed in it so heartily that he had kicked it in mid-speech and got his foot embedded in it . |
| 20 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 21 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 22 | Mr Widdup , 64 , made it plain yesterday that he was unwilling to play the role of rural hero . |
| 23 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |