Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 2 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 3 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 6 | However , Mr Major made his frankest admission so far that the Tory campaign had been dogged by the recession . |
| 7 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 8 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 9 | She defended her case so well that the prior gave judgement in her favour . |
| 10 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 11 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 12 | One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless ( clue : he lives in Wallyford ) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80′ near groundfall when six runners ripped ! ! |
| 13 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 14 | She cried and wailed into Sally-Anne 's skirt so pitifully that Sally-Anne 's own fear of the brute before her was lost in sympathy for his wretched victim . |
| 15 | Body hunched apparently awkwardly over the front of the machine , hunting for front tyre grip , Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash . |
| 16 | Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash |
| 17 | As a body , they have influenced government and secured their future so effectively that they and their agencies are written by name into the Statute Book . |
| 18 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 19 | His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection . |
| 20 | And their mother had screwed up the tube of toothpaste so tightly that the lid would n't budge . |
| 21 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 22 | Outside young girls in pairs hold hands facing each other and , leaning back , they pirouette so fast that their shawls flare out from the tops of their heads . |
| 23 | She darted over to embrace Dot so tightly that she could n't breathe . |
| 24 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 25 | A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 27 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 28 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 29 | Sighing , she pulled on socks and sweater , then knotted the scarf at her throat and secured one of the ends to her sweater with the silver lioness brooch so automatically that she paused , eyeing herself in the mirror . |
| 30 | Paige felt the shooting pleasure so keenly that her hand clutched frantically at his hair . |