Example sentences of "so [adv] that [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 8 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |