Example sentences of "so [adj] [that] he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara upset a skillet of boiling milk on her husband 's foot , and left him so lame that he was prevented for days from joining his friends on their lengthening excursions into the Quantock countryside . |
| 2 | He also fell so ill that he was sent to the family 's country house to convalesce . |
| 3 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 4 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 5 | He sat amongst the pigs , so hungry that he was tempted to eat the pigs ' swill . |
| 6 | He proved so able that he was chosen to represent the firm at the Paris exhibition of 1855 . |
| 7 | The huge eight-year-old gelding , whose appetite is so big that he is nicknamed Monster Munch , was led through a crowd of 500 well-wishers to his box at the Saxon House stables of his trainer , Nick Gaselee . |
| 8 | The third , who had become separated from them , lost his shirt , and was so dirty that he was arrested at Parma station . |
| 9 | Bush is so certain that he 's lost The Big Three he has stopped campaigning there , concentrating on a dozen battleground states which could go either way . |