Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 2 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 3 | Secondly , if the joke is so successful that it gets a lot of laughter you do not want to rush on so fast that your next words can not be heard . |
| 4 | Theda had shoved it on so hastily that she must have carelessly left a little hair visible . |
| 5 | He was ill — except that how many diseases came on so quickly that a man could send you flowers in the morning and by dinner be incapable of lifting the telephone ? |
| 6 | In addition to these issues which arise from the nature of professional occupations and the control of professional courses , there are two other issues which lie at the heart of professional education , so much so indeed that they can be taken as defining characteristics of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 9 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 10 | They admit that they get pissed off with bad gigs , not getting enough sleep and tour vans breaking down so often that they end up ‘ losing it ’ and crawling over the banks of motorways looking for crisp packets . |
| 11 | The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper could n't keep the glass free of it . |
| 12 | They are found more frequently in recent archaeological assemblages , for instance from Neolithic deposits in Orkney ( Armour-Chelu , 1988 ) and Bronze age deposits in the Somerset Levels ( Girling , 1977 ) , but usually the pellets break down so quickly that they are not preserved . |
| 13 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 14 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 15 | Baptiste felt her stumble and slowed down so abruptly that she ran into him , grabbed at him to keep her balance . |
| 16 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |
| 17 | The only shapes that fit together so closely that all their walls are common with those of their neighbours are triangles , squares and hexagons . |
| 18 | Birds become dehydrated very quickly and their water supplies soon run out , they are crammed together so tightly that their body heat is suffocating and the unlucky ones die . |
| 19 | is it you know erm I mean I feel so so passionately that that we should keep going but |
| 20 | The bland Norwegian dropped it in so casually that Carrington made something of an idiot of himself . |
| 21 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 22 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 23 | Mercedes-Benz , which originally developed airbag technology and which fits the US size bag as standard to all its products in the UK , argues that even if the full size bag is triggered accidentally , the inflation and deflation cycle is over so quickly that the driver does not lose control . |
| 24 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 25 | Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way . |
| 26 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 27 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 28 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 29 | Melissa was on her way in a flash , but not so quickly that she missed the knowing look on Iris 's face . |
| 30 | A 45-minute session makes you feel relaxed and slightly dazed , but not so severely that you ca n't go shopping afterwards . |