Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 2 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 3 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 4 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 5 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 6 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 7 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 8 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 9 | erm During the four years of war , however , erm and indeed right up to his death in nineteen twenty-two , Proust revised and enlarged his novel so much that it trebled in length , and the publication was not in fact completed until after his death in nineteen twenty-seven . |
| 10 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 11 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 12 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 13 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 14 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 15 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 16 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 17 | Mine was so tight that it cut into the skin . |
| 18 | It was so cold that it burnt her , so cold that it stuck to her fingers . |
| 19 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 20 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 21 | Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction . |
| 22 | The picture was so circumstantial that it began to be convincing , and Harry 's heart hammered in his breast with hope and dread . |
| 23 | UNISYS IS JUST SO HAPPY THAT IT SETTLED FOR INTEL 's $5,000m CHIP RATHER THAN FOLLOWING THE HERD TO RISC … |
| 24 | The pain which followed immediately was so sudden and so extreme that it went beyond feeling . |
| 25 | The examples of the behaviour of these men was so outrageous that it served as a warning to many people against this particular vice . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 27 | When she first read the letter , standing out there in the heat of Nassau Street , Ruth was overcome by a pang of homesickness so severe that it felt like a pain burning inside her . |
| 28 | Their clothing was so radioactive that it had to be destroyed . |
| 29 | Polonium is a strong alpha emitter , however , until the Americans made an atomic bomb , no one had ever used polonium in any appreciable amount ; it was so radioactive that it glowed in the dark . |
| 30 | Frost was so thick that it looked like newly fallen snow . |