Example sentences of "[pron] so [det] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 2 | Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon . |
| 3 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 4 | It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy ! |
| 5 | ‘ Cricket gave me so much that I want to put something back into the game and teaching the youngsters how to play is a rewarding way of doing it . |
| 6 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 7 | The knocking annoyed me so much that I tried to open the window . |
| 8 | The slower pace bored and irritated them so much that they longed to go back and their parents were almost glad to see them off . |
| 9 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe if you love someone so little that it does n't hurt then it 's not love . |
| 11 | ‘ If you love somebody so much that it hurts then you are loving too much . |
| 12 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 13 | Now , God help me , I want you so much that I ache , ’ he growled huskily . |
| 14 | Forgive me if I hurt you , but I want you so much that I do n't know if I can hold back . ’ |
| 15 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 16 | A picture rose in her mind of Dawn enfolded in his arms when they were alone in his surgery , and it tormented her so much that she got up hurriedly and put the little dog in a cage to await Robert 's collection . |
| 17 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
| 18 | The sound of the door opening and of voices as people came out on to the deck shocked her so much that she felt physically sick . |
| 19 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |
| 20 | That piece of information shook her so much that she put up no resistance to being led off , except to say , ‘ Where are we going ? ’ |
| 21 | She 'd been convinced he respected her so much that he had intentions of a more permanent nature . |
| 22 | He hated her so much that he refused even to see her as a person . |
| 23 | If the choice of site was intended to reinforce fraternal solidarity , it failed : Lothar 's palace at Thionville was too close for comfort , and his brothers still mistrusted him so much that they demanded hostages from him to guarantee the security of their own negotiators . |
| 24 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 25 | Who could the woman be , who admired him so much that she sent him a valentine ? |
| 26 | Brutus says that Caesar 's feelings have never moved him so much that he had lost his sense of reason . |
| 27 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 28 | His much loved wife , Anne of Bohemia , died in 1394 , and this affected him so much that he felt everyone and everything was against him . |
| 29 | The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them . |
| 30 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |