Example sentences of "so [vb pp] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 2 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 3 | ‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’ |
| 4 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 5 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
| 6 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 7 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 8 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 9 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 10 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 11 | I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply . |
| 12 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |