Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 2 | She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft . |
| 3 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 4 | Those values and that conception of society have permeated the American consciousness , so much so that they have largely gone unstated . |
| 5 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |
| 6 | At school , compensating , she had worked and worked and worked , so much so that she had finally made the two A's and a B necessary for medicine in her A levels . |
| 7 | This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy . |
| 8 | Aviation was one of them and I was completely fascinated by the thrill of flying , so much so that I thought seriously of giving up journalism and becoming an aviator . |
| 9 | So much so that I want very much to make love to you again . |
| 10 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 11 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |
| 12 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 13 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 14 | It 's because you loved your husband so much that you feel so much . |
| 15 | Finally , if asked to do so , tie all the scripts together so that none goes astray . |
| 16 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 17 | She had said she loved him , once , and it had chilled him , so clearly that she 'd never mentioned it again . |
| 18 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 19 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 20 | This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning . |
| 21 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 22 | ‘ It was so long ago that I 've almost forgotten . |
| 23 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 24 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 25 | Then I was falling , so fast that I felt quite breathless . |
| 26 | He spun around so fast that he came close to falling over , his heart leaping like a bird in a snare . |
| 27 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 28 | Some archer fish are able to line up their prey so precisely that it falls directly into the water below , and within easy reach of the fish , instead of being knocked inconveniently into the distance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |