Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 4 | After they have done this , tell them to return all the cards to the pack and to shuffle them together so that you can not possibly know where they were . |
| 5 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 7 | To know you so completely that ever after you will be me , and I you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 9 | He came to meet her so fast that the skirt of his white coat floated out behind him . |
| 10 | Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 12 | If you think something you 've noticed is important , report it separately so that it can be put on the resident 's file . |
| 13 | History may point at Berlin and say it way here that the dream of communism started to curl up and die . |
| 14 | Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke |
| 15 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 16 | If anyone puts a verse like that on my headstone , I 'm warning them right now that I 'll get up and haunt them for ever . |
| 17 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She agreed to marry me , but she told me straight away that she would n't be able to live in England all the time , and I told her I could n't live in L.A. |
| 19 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ she said , ‘ you told me only yesterday that you did n't want any children . |
| 21 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 22 | Mix them together so that you have a sticky paste . |
| 23 | I told you once before that I was selfish . |
| 24 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 25 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 26 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 28 | They took her in their arms and lifted her gently so that she could feel their support along the length of her body . |
| 29 | You were pretty then , but now — ’ he stood back and surveyed her so admiringly that it was impossible to take offence ‘ — now you 're absolutely beautiful . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |