Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 He seemed calmer now , and smiled widely so that Christie noticed how white his teeth were .
2 Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs .
3 The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth .
4 Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him .
5 Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test .
6 His fellow pupils at school suffered so badly that Mary became a constant visitor to the headmaster 's study , and Gary was banned from the playground .
7 The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all .
8 But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance .
9 Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform .
10 He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up .
11 So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview .
12 So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview .
13 The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ .
14 It has co-operated with her tennis progress , so much so that Zara has a special timetable to accommodate her tennis .
15 As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah :
16 It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) .
17 There we walked through the Green Dragon to the force , at a hundred feet the longest unbroken waterfall in England , and known to freeze into a massive ice tube in winter — Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited the spot and were impressed by its grandeur , so much so that William , ever the florid poet , wrote ebulliently to Coleridge , describing the visit :
18 Physically both had changed — so much so that Jason did n't recognise Kylie at first .
19 So much so that Jan got quite giggly and started swapping bargain stories with him , and I was left with Darren .
20 There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate .
21 So much so that Lenin commissioned a leading party organizer and Georgian , Josef Stalin , to write a counter-attack ( published in 1913 ) .
22 Extensive work over the winter has resulted in a marked increase in power — so much so that Fisher now feels the Toyota heads the power league ahead of the Subarus driven by himself and Kenny McKinstry .
23 Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day .
24 So much so that Newcastle are now ready to pay a lot of money for a striker , ‘ a Newcastle type ’ in Keegan 's words , as a replacement .
25 Strachan on song is a familiar sound this season , so much so that Howard Wilkinson confesses he finds it difficult to say something new about his club captain .
26 Observation and experiment in order to discover the properties of things in the material world is a worthwhile activity ; so much so that Locke sometimes honours its results with the more dignified term ‘ experimental knowledge ’ .
27 So much so that Wesley came back with , ‘ And yet softness be a virtue . ’
28 Kevin came to the rescue with a meal that certainly impressed , so much so that Pam 's husband won the deal !
29 Better perhaps that Benedict should not return — though God send nothing had happened to him , for she could bear anything but that ! — for that his lost inheritance , through her fault , must prevent his ever regarding her with anything but hatred .
30 So suddenly that Jed jumped .
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