Example sentences of "so [adv] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 2 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 3 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 4 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |