Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And the third man who … said he loved me … ’ and her voice faltered at the words ‘ … loved me so dearly that on hearing the slanders of my assailant he believed every word that he said , and none of mine . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’ |
| 5 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ You liked me so much that you walked out on me ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 8 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 9 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 10 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 11 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 12 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 14 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 15 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair . |
| 18 | These rolls were a speciality of Baden , and the people of Zurich liked them so much that a special train used to leave Baden early every morning so that they were in Zurich fresh and in time for breakfast . |
| 19 | She was kneading the gloves in her lap , gripping them so tightly that her knuckles showed white . |
| 20 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself curled up inside a dark cocoon , which envelops you so closely that you can barely breathe . |
| 21 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 22 | To know you so completely that ever after you will be me , and I you . ’ |
| 23 | He came to meet her so fast that the skirt of his white coat floated out behind him . |
| 24 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 25 | She sat there , quivering as he took her in his arms , kissing her so sweetly that she thought the pain of love would tear open her heart . |
| 26 | He was looking at her so intently that she closed her eyes again . |
| 27 | He was staring at her so intently that she wanted to cry out . |
| 28 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 29 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 30 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |