Example sentences of "[adv prt] so [adv] [that] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was ill — except that how many diseases came on so quickly that a man could send you flowers in the morning and by dinner be incapable of lifting the telephone ?
2 The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper could n't keep the glass free of it .
3 Mercedes-Benz , which originally developed airbag technology and which fits the US size bag as standard to all its products in the UK , argues that even if the full size bag is triggered accidentally , the inflation and deflation cycle is over so quickly that the driver does not lose control .
4 The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows .
5 Then his mother had married again , to a PT Instructor who beat Luke up so badly that a court ruled he should go and live with Bart full time .
6 When Grainne slipped silently into his room , desire blazed up so uncontrollably that the banked-down emotions of a lifetime were swept aside , and he knew he would take her fiercely and violently .
7 If you choose a wallmounted fitting , make sure the arm does n't jut out so far that the light is in front of you as this will throw your book into shadow .
8 Sharpe shouted , and at the same time he raked his spurs back so savagely that the exhausted and astonished mare jerked forward , almost spilling Sharpe out of his tall Hussar 's saddle .
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