Example sentences of "[noun] so [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 2 | In this case the Court also said the trader who ‘ clocks ’ the odometer to zero ( or some other figure so absurdly low that a customer who reads it would not believe it ) would still be guilty . |
| 3 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 4 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
| 6 | They made the front roll bar so much stiffer that the cars understeered out of the race with the front tyres worn out . |
| 7 | Today there are very few old buildings so structurally unsound that they can not be saved . |
| 8 | It s so typically English that this rebel should end up with his own sweat shop in Clapton — you 'll see it for yourself in due course . |
| 9 | It smells and tastes so richly revolting that it is claimed to be the only fruit expressly forbidden in the plush Mandarin Hilton hotel in Singapore . |
| 10 | She is by no means so severely undernourished that her thinking is physically impaired . |
| 11 | Slammed against his body , Caroline barely had time to catch her breath in a choked gasp before he bent to cover her mouth , his kiss so fiercely unexpected that her head fell back . |
| 12 | Other people have a concept of God so fundamentally false that it would be better for them to doubt than to remain devout . |
| 13 | There were innumerable bedrooms , some with four-posters , the furniture draped in sheets , two doors leading to separate wings so long disused that the dust lay thick on the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the matter , Leonora ? ’ asked Penry , his voice so unusually gentle that it brought a sheen of tears to her eyes . |
| 15 | She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china . |
| 16 | He was removed quickly and taken to hospital to have ten stitches in an ear so badly lacerated that the cartilage was exposed . |
| 17 | For several seconds , as their gazes met and held , she was disturbingly aware of the strong , sun-bronzed column of his throat , the startlingly blue gaze which studied her with an intensity so vibrantly sexual that it almost took her breath away before he turned his attention to the American couple . |
| 18 | Sometimes the manner is sly and teasing , at others so challengingly straight-faced that you find yourself half-believing it ( MACARONI : When prepared in the Italian style , is served with the fingers ) . |
| 19 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |