Example sentences of "so [adj] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
| 2 | They walked along corridors so narrow that they had to turn sideways , and through corridors as wide as barns . |
| 3 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 4 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 5 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 6 | Luke 's voice was so low that she had to strain to hear it above the noisy chatter of the birds , the rustle of the breeze in the trees . |
| 7 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 8 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm so sorry that you had to wait , Signorina Hastings . |
| 10 | A transistor radio was playing so loud that he had to shout . |
| 11 | Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo . |
| 12 | It left her so weak that she had to put a hand out to the table before she could sit down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The yew trees in the Grove were dark green and so old that they had grown twisted and lumpy , like arthritic fingers . |
| 15 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 16 | Giles 's motive in telling her of his expectations was so transparent that she had lost interest in him . |
| 17 | Because the queues at the sandwich bar had been so horrendous that she had decided to go without lunch and now she was feeling disconnected and light-headed . |
| 18 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 19 | ‘ Very overrated , ’ he kept saying , and soon they were laughing so much that they had to put their heads beneath the blankets to stifle the noise , in case the farmer and his wife wondered at their hilarity . |
| 20 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 24 | It was a waste of time him going but he nagged so much that she had to let him go . |
| 25 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 26 | In the same year Darwin set sail on the Beagle taking with him Lyell 's " Principles " and read it so much that he had to ask the ship 's carpenter to rebind it in wood . |
| 27 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 28 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 29 | She 'd been convinced he respected her so much that he had intentions of a more permanent nature . |
| 30 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |