Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 2 | ‘ I spoke to Robert — he called Dawn and she became so hysterical that I could n't understand her . |
| 3 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 4 | After that they got so frequent that I had to select . ’ |
| 5 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 6 | Two army medics who were getting ready to deal with such things in the wild were also there , and they kept me laughing so much that I was wobbling up and down while the surgeon was trying to operate . |
| 7 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 8 | I have never felt so much that I was in a foreign country with seemingly infinite resources available for any purpose you care to name , from stretch automobiles to space travel . |
| 9 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 10 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 11 | ‘ People made me feel so welcome that I will undoubtedly go back and live in the North-East . |
| 12 | The injustice of this request seemed so intolerable that I could n't speak . |
| 13 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 14 | The room , and the view , and the two people , seemed so calm that I did not want to disturb them . |
| 15 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
| 16 | Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision . |
| 17 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 18 | He 's made me work so hard that I feel tired and ill . |
| 19 | Do I sound so optimistic that I 'm not always conscious of the short step between swaddling-bands and cerements ? |
| 20 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 21 | These women seem so real that I feel sure that they were based , at least in part , on women that Anthony Trollope knew . |
| 22 | It 's got so bad that I do n't even know what to say . ’ |
| 23 | It has been hyped so much that I was n't sure whether I would like it . |
| 24 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 25 | That 's the other problem , it 's getting so complicated that I do n't understand half of it myself . |
| 26 | By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down . |
| 27 | She had become so beautiful that I felt very distant from her . |
| 28 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 29 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 30 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |