Example sentences of "so [adv] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 2 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 5 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 6 | You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair . |
| 7 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and in rugby so much can happen so quickly that I believe we have earned that 50–50 chance . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 12 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 13 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 14 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 15 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 16 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 17 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 18 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 19 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 20 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 21 | Luce sat perfectly still , her eyes on his face , her heart beating so loudly that she thought he must hear . |
| 22 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 23 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 24 | Lastly , which is something we all reach eventually , hopefully , is what we call unconscious competence , when you know how to do something so well that you do it un without thinking , it 's like driving . |
| 25 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |
| 26 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 27 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 28 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 29 | Albert smiled at her but so sadly that it brought her no comfort . |