Example sentences of "so [adj] that we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 2 | The producer , Sarah D Wilson comments … ‘ the public and press reaction was so strong that we developed another seven programmes to conclude the story . |
| 3 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 4 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 5 | We knew these and other shows so word-perfect that we knew when a mistake was made , and noticed all the ‘ ad libs ’ put in by actors like George Robey , W. H. Berry , Alfred Lester , and Nelson Keys . ’ |
| 6 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 7 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 8 | The unfortunate queen , unable to take sunlight after her lengthy seclusion , was entirely swaddled in black cloth — in which she was undergoing an exercise so rigorous that we wondered if she would emerge from it alive . |
| 9 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 10 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 11 | We liked the motor camp at Marahau so much that we stayed two nights , giving us a chance to wash and clean up after the Abel Tasman . |
| 12 | Everything was so sudden that we did n't know what to do , whether to stay where we were or to run . |
| 13 | One house was so unusual that we stopped and walked around it . |
| 14 | Eventually , they got so noisy that we reverted to weekday openings . |
| 15 | Julian Rivers , marketing director of Dillons , said : ‘ We have supported Childline in the past and were so impressed that we wanted to help again . ’ |
| 16 | In fact at one time before the Pakistan-Bangladesh war there were so many that we called this form of depression Pakistani Syndrome . |
| 17 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 18 | We could hear the groan of their engines for so long that we thought more vehicles were approaching . |
| 19 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 20 | But they were so good-natured that we forgave all . |
| 21 | The insult was so unjust and so gross that we instituted proceedings for libel and extracted — not without difficulty — a full apology and retraction . |
| 22 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 23 | On this occasion we thought it so important that we invited the bishop to lay hands on the team as they were sent out and began to meet on Sunday mornings , initially in a large sitting room as we searched for suitable premises . |
| 24 | ‘ The plan was to have 100 people working by the end of 1992 but we 've been so successful that we achieved that by the end of 1989 , ’ McWilliams claims . |
| 25 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 26 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 27 | It was so wonderful that we had a secret to seal our relationship . |
| 28 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 29 | I became so worried that we went to our G.P. and after several visits he suggested an allergy to cows milk : so we tried a milk free diet ( its harder than you think once you start looking at contents labels ) . |
| 30 | One particularly bold animal came so close that we thought he was going to hook his tusks over the edge of our inflatable . |