Example sentences of "so [det] [that] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She was shaking so much that she could barely speak .
2 It was a great day when he found , not so much that he could still play , but that he still wanted to .
3 He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe .
4 But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate .
5 At first the result was that his lungs hurt so much that he could hardly stand up .
6 Has the hon. Gentleman , who reads with his lips so much that he could almost give lessons to the Leader of the Opposition , read the amendment which deals with precisely this issue ?
7 ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed .
8 But the Chinese Constitution contains all sorts of promises , too — so many that it could probably have been construed to forbid the People 's Liberation Army from shooting dead hundreds of unarmed civilians , and to prohibit the arbitrary arrest , summary trial or execution of thousands more .
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