Example sentences of "the [noun] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless ( clue : he lives in Wallyford ) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80′ near groundfall when six runners ripped ! ! |
| 2 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 4 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 5 | The chanting of arithmetical tables by the whole class , day after day , used to impress the data so firmly that none of the circumstances of later life could eliminate that early acquirement . |
| 6 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 7 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 8 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 9 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 10 | Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play . |
| 11 | But , despite this assumption , they sat at the desk so closely that their bodies were almost touching , and there were times when his arm encircled her shoulders while he leaned forward to check additions on the electronic calculator . |
| 12 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 13 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 14 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 15 | He had changed the subjet so adroitly that Juliet could only stare at him . |
| 16 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 17 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 18 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 19 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 20 | The volumes , bound in green leather and tooled in gold , were identical in size and fitted the bookshelves so precisely that the effect was more of an artist 's trompe-l'oeil than of a working library . |
| 21 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 22 | There it seems that from the earliest days of the pioneer settlers the black cat was linked with the devil so strongly that it was , in any context , an evil force . |
| 23 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 24 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 25 | The dish should fit the meat so well that it does n't take too much liquid to just cover the meat . |
| 26 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 27 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 28 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 29 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 30 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |