Example sentences of "in a [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then a nest of tentacles writhes from the swarf , trapping my feet in a grip so strong . |
| 2 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 3 | In a work so concerned with the transmission of cultural values this is appropriate . |
| 4 | In a legend so old , discrepancies in dates can be expected and are of secondary importance . |
| 5 | From Havelock North we went on south to Wellington , driving through the Manawatu Gorge in a thunderstorm so heavy we had to pull up . |
| 6 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 7 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 8 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 9 | ‘ See , ‘ t is but a scratch , ’ she murmured , in a voice so shy and uncertain that something else shuddered deep inside him . |
| 10 | She sang at her work in a voice so pure that the local men said she had a bell in every tooth , and was gifted by God … |
| 11 | a place where you say , in a voice so new it shines , I like |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got work to do , ’ she said in a voice so brittle that it threatened to crack completely . |
| 13 | In a voice so quiet , ( I almost missed his words ) he spoke . |
| 14 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 15 | The Doctor began to speak , in a voice so quiet Piper wondered how she could hear his words above the storm . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt , ’ he suggested , in a voice so soft that she had to tilt her head to catch the words , ‘ no doubt , ’ he went on , ‘ you can disengage with equal speed ? |
| 17 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank you , ’ I reply , in a voice so matter-of-fact that I see Lil pulsate in a seven-headed double-take . |
| 19 | Yet even in a country so vast and diverse as the ex-Empire , there were some features that affected most parts , and set up their own horizontal influences at all lower levels of society irrespective of any vertical political pressures acting from a single centre . |
| 20 | In a country so large there really is something for everyone . |
| 21 | His comrades in arms had made their views known to him quite openly and , in any case , he could not have remained ignorant in a country so full of informers , police and intelligence services as Spain then was . |
| 22 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 23 | National sovereignty and popular sovereignty in a Europe so wide will require not only more effective national Parliaments but Europewide instruments to express and administer Europe . |
| 24 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 25 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 26 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 27 | Above the parlour is the King 's Bedroom because George 1 , coming back from one of his constant visits to Hanover — he was a Hanoverian and spoke little English — was caught in a storm so violent that his ship was driven ashore on Camber Sands close by Rye . |
| 28 | He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one . |
| 29 | The gun was a genuine late-Victorian revolver ( another anachronism in a film so full of them that its period could be any time between 1700 and 1900 ) . |
| 30 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |