Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was always prepared to take suggestions from his chosen dancers and also from Peggy van Praagh , who told me that her function was most often to suggest that he was attempting too much and ought to take something out . |
| 2 | The DES was somewhat curtly informed that this was a matter for the LEAs concerned . |
| 3 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |
| 4 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 5 | The problem of the step was so little regarded that there was no standard solution in the literature and so I asked David Marsh to get one . |
| 6 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 7 | But the explosive charge was too large and the chapel was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled down . |
| 8 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 9 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 11 | According to one or two bold spirits who had succeeded in getting into it , it was so badly constructed that when they jumped up and down on the floor the entire building trembled . |
| 12 | Jack 's opportunity to break into the limelight came when Fred Dawes was so badly injured that he could not play again : Jack 's debut was as demanding as any Palace debut could be — at Millwall ! |
| 13 | She was so badly injured that she was able only to tell them her name . |
| 14 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 15 | His body was so badly burned that his features were unrecognisable . |
| 16 | She was so badly burned that surgeons had to amputate her left hand . |
| 17 | Clouds of large mosquitoes swarmed around the runners and he was so badly bitten that his arms and legs were bleeding , making him ill . |
| 18 | This , too , was so frequently overrun that by AD 143 it was decided to attempt another defence further north , across the narrower neck of land between Forth and Clyde . |
| 19 | The lime juice myth was so firmly entrenched that it is still commonly believed . |
| 20 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 21 | The working man was so successfully emancipated that he ( and even more , polls suggest , his wife ) ceased to defer to those who said they were his public spokesmen . |
| 22 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 23 | It was so skilfully managed that almost before Lindsey knew what was happening the pressure of his hand was drawing her away . |
| 24 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 25 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
| 26 | In the abortive Artois offensive of May 1915 , the attack by Pétain 's Corps at Vimy Ridge was so well prepared that for a moment it seemed as if the whole German front might collapse . |
| 27 | This network was so well developed that when Captain Hugh Clapperton ‘ discovered ’ Kano in 1824 he was able to obtain cash from a local merchant in return for a bill of exchange on the British consul at Tripoli . |
| 28 | and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times . |
| 29 | The cloth on the table was so stiffly starched that it stuck out at the corners . |
| 30 | She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked . |