Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them .
2 He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane .
3 He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles .
4 If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing .
5 He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup .
6 She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen …
7 She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else .
8 Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over .
9 This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it .
10 They have made no impression on the Yugoslavian tragedy — so much so that I wish we had developed our own foreign policy towards the future of Yugoslavia in general and to the states of Slovenia and Croatia in particular .
11 So much so that I bought his only copy of it , and earned his cordial loathing .
12 ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’
13 Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour .
14 After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’
15 One of the somewhat older guy , he can orchestrate it so much so that he gets his gold out of it .
16 Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand .
17 But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there .
18 I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right .
19 Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her .
20 John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’
21 You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair .
22 Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence .
23 He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement .
24 When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby .
25 Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it .
26 and in rugby so much can happen so quickly that I believe we have earned that 50–50 chance . ’
27 These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his .
28 She was pulled upwards with startling velocity , the sensation of flying through the air causing the world to tilt so precariously that she found herself clinging to fitzAlan like a drowning woman .
29 His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words .
30 Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too .
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