Example sentences of "was [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 2 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 3 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 4 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 5 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 6 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 7 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 8 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 9 | The Spanish Armada was defeated so decisively that the English often reckoned that their command of the sea began then , although it was never secure until the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | And it was done through a trust then , and it was done so quietly that they had n't time to object . |
| 11 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 12 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 13 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 14 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 15 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 16 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 17 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |
| 18 | He struggled for a moment , but he was enclosed so tightly that he could not even work an arm free from his side . |
| 19 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 20 | It was opened so forcefully that one of the straps broke . |
| 21 | He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult . |
| 22 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 23 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 24 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 25 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 26 | Her head was throbbing so vilely that the effort was too much . |
| 27 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 28 | Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test . |
| 29 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 30 | In June 1977 , six months before Fisher 's report was published , the tide of opinion was running so strongly that the Prime Minister announced the appointment of a Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure . |