Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little .
2 I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock .
3 We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue .
4 He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary .
5 I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected .
6 MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature .
7 We just sat here just now and said that you 'd be in about half past
8 Yeah Jim came over before and said that he was er going off to do work tonight .
9 Berghofer was reconfirmed as mayor of Dresden shortly afterwards and declared that he would not join another party until after the election .
10 The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides .
11 A leading pay analysis company , Income Data Services , predicts that the incidence of pay freezes lasting a year or more is likely to increase still further and says that pay cuts are also becoming more common , particularly in vulnerable sectors like construction and engineering .
12 I checked the needles more thoroughly and discovered that the very tip of the latch of a needle was sheered off .
13 Or should he just take it off again and hope that she 'd come back in time .
14 At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage .
15 Interestingly , the next flip is rather overdue , so do not be surprised to wake up tomorrow and find that your compass is n't working properly !
16 He looked up again and saw that Herrick had removed the wraparound and was staring across at him .
17 He looked up briefly and saw that the black youth was watching him .
18 Richard Corliss in Time magazine recognised that , ‘ The most reactionary middle-American could sit back comfortably and think that , if marrying a pretty girl is all my subversive son wants , maybe the kid is n't so bad after all . ’
19 It is a threat because the Government have sat back willingly and said that they do not care if another 30 million tonnes of coal is taken out of the take and if there are to be gas-fired power stations .
20 In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves .
21 And women have to got to get , get out there and ensure that the people who do plan the way that these services are are operated and managed an an all the things evaluated , that women have a real say in that .
22 Sensing another Hurley enterprise that would interest Donleavy , Coleman poked around discreetly and discovered that Eurame had supplied , or was in process of supplying , copies of this software to other national police and military forces in the region , including those of Egypt , Syria , Pakistan , Turkey , Kuwait , Israel , Jordan , Iran and Iraq .
23 Some French intellectuals have gone even further and demanded that the whole thing be burned to the ground .
24 Salter and Tapper ( 1981 ) go even further and suggest that the report writers ' aim was to encourage radical ideological changes in teacher attitudes .
25 In Law , Legislation and Liberty Hayek went even further and suggested that , since legislation proper ‘ should not be governed by interests but by opinion ’ , what is required ‘ is an assembly of men and women elected at a relatively mature age for fairly long periods , such as fifteen years ’ .
26 Another Latin American writer , José P. Miranda , goes even further and argues that God ‘ is knowable exclusively in the cry of the poor and the weak who seek justice ’ .
27 In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons .
28 The court , however , went even further and stated that the dismissal did not fall within the scope of the provision allowing ‘ dismissal due to pressure ’ .
29 Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble .
30 ‘ What I mean is — she explained your circumstances quite openly and asked that if anything happened to her I would keep an eye on your affairs . ’
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