Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I traded with them so that the young girls of the country would no longer shrink from me in revulsion , ’ he said , and there was a lick of sensuality in the hissing voice now . |
| 2 | Muscles developed around them so that the front ends of the rods could be moved up and down . |
| 3 | Yet the bowlers defended well , and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense . |
| 4 | But not all their black arts could save them now that the full strength of Ulthuan was brought to bear . |
| 5 | Glad of the diversion , I said , ‘ Someone told me today that the bad weather was caused by all the cannon-balls discharged on the Field of Waterloo last year . ’ |
| 6 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 7 | Simple arithmetic will show that if you wish the examiner to appreciate your answer you must present it to him so that the minimum time is required for reading , assessing and marking . |
| 8 | He left his cocoon of warmth , closing the folds behind him so that the damp chill of the room would not invade his secret place during his absence . |
| 9 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 10 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 11 | Now it is not for me to give my opinion as to that and I do not , but I think it right that the general public should understand and be aware that this is now the law . ’ |
| 12 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 13 | However , previous decisions had also laid it down that the identical procedure was to be followed in both cases . |
| 14 | Being credulous in matters of sorcery , they began to put it about that the Frank doctor not only had the power of expelling demons but had dominion over them . |
| 15 | Thus , the ‘ equation ’ is really an identity which must always be true : it tells us only that the total amount of money handed over in transactions is equal to the value of what is sold . |
| 16 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 17 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |