Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning .
2 All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it .
3 Obstetric physiotherapists can teach you exercises to strengthen your bladder and may also help you to move about more easily so that you can get to the lavatory more quickly .
4 if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid .
5 erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were
6 During the last war intelligence experts came to rely upon Ultra so heavily that if Ultra intercepts told them nothing they automatically assumed the Germans were doing nothing .
7 Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe .
8 And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required .
9 It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions .
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