Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Teague would also be put out if his comeback with second division Moseley were to go so well that he 's in contention for a place . |
| 2 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 3 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 4 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 5 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 6 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 7 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 8 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 9 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 10 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 11 | Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them . |
| 12 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 13 | This apparently arose because of the dryness of the site chosen ; an equivalent set left on the ground in much damper conditions disintegrated so quickly that no trace of them or their contents remained after 10 months . |
| 14 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 15 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 16 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 17 | But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued . |
| 18 | That 's something which has developed so quickly that it 's almost ahead of us ( as it were ) in terms of planning . |
| 19 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 20 | It was a cool challenge , drawled so quietly that she almost missed it . |
| 21 | It is doubtful that the 1703 visitors were looking at ‘ pickle ’ since the anthropoid shell fits so tightly that no additional liquid could have been introduced . |
| 22 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 23 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 24 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 25 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 26 | Frankie felt himself gripped more tightly , then shaken so violently that his teeth rattled . |
| 27 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 28 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 29 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 30 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |