Example sentences of "with a [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though with hands , lips , and tongue , and an even more potent weapon , he stormed her defences , ravishing her to his heart 's content , filling her with a delight so intense that each climax was like a small death . |
| 2 | HAMLET , with his doublet all unbraced , no hat upon his head , his stockings fouled , ungartered and down-gyred to his ankle , pale as his shirt , his knees knocking each other … and with a look so piteous , he takes her by the wrist and holds her hard , then he goes to the length of his arm , and with his other hand over his brow , falls to such perusal of her face as he would draw it … |
| 3 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 4 | The sound was deep , electronically slick and fluid , but feathered with a tremolo so fine you could only just distinguish the individual notes . |
| 5 | I was stricken with a love so vast that I could n't find the edges . |
| 6 | With a smile so radiant that the light in heaven itself sparkled , she leapt into action . |
| 7 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 8 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 9 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 10 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 11 | Then all at once he looked up , with a stare so sudden and urgent it was like a shout . |
| 12 | She ended the first day with a headache so severe she could hardly see . |
| 13 | Secondly , although the integral values of the Hall resistivity at the plateaux can be explained by a simple theory that glosses over many of the complications of real inversion layers , nobody expects such outstandingly good agreement , better than 1 part per million , with a theory so coarse . |
| 14 | Never mind that in the whole country there is only one functioning synagogue , with a congregation so small and old that it sometimes can not muster a minyan . |
| 15 | Before a generally topless audience and a modestly genitalia-flaunting panel , the matter was explored with a seriousness so profound that it became unconsciously hilarious . |
| 16 | Although the venue is hot and cramped , with a stage so small that audience and entertainers can stand nose to nose , clubbers cram in every week , straining its 300-person capacity . |
| 17 | Hrun the Barbarian crept soundlessly along the corridors , which were lit with a light so violet that it was almost black . |
| 18 | The secret that lay between them , those minutes when he had held her shaking body against the tree trunk and stared into her eyes , compelling obedience , had bound them with a cord so strong that it could n't be frayed , either by the enormity of their shared guilty secret , or by the small rubs of living together . |
| 19 | Once , they exploded with a sound so terrifying that it brought all of us below instantly out on to the rain-drenched deck . |
| 20 | The wheel never stopped turning , the machines rattled backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , never slowing , never slacking , never tiring ; backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , ever anxious , ever urgent , ever eager ; full of anger and ambition with a rhythm so consistent , irresistibly insistent , ever beating , never cheating , beating , beating through the brain . |
| 21 | All this is what Clinique 's extraordinary new Turnaround Cream attacks — with a speed so dramatic and direct , it begins its work literally overnight . |
| 22 | His eyes rested on her face once more , with an expression so baffling that she could not hope to interpret it . |
| 23 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |