Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a cool challenge , drawled so quietly that she almost missed it . |
| 10 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 11 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 12 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |
| 13 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 14 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 15 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 16 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 17 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 18 | Five short days ; it was n't long in which to have your life turned upside-down , changed so drastically that it would never be the same again , was it ? |
| 19 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 20 | These fly-by-night ‘ bosses ’ changed so frequently that workers would lose track of who was actually employing them . |
| 21 | Indeed , the situation changed so swiftly that there is almost no resemblance between the political maps of Spain for 1000 and 1050 , or again between those covering the times of the birth and death of El Cid . |
| 22 | A word or phrase used so often that it becomes a slogan . |
| 23 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 24 | When it was running , the geyser roared so loudly that the place felt like a rocket in the middle of a take off . |
| 25 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 26 | His fellow pupils at school suffered so badly that Mary became a constant visitor to the headmaster 's study , and Gary was banned from the playground . |
| 27 | Strikers Goodman and McGinlay played so well that Armstrong 's absence was hardly noticed . |
| 28 | From cunningly concealed speakers piped music wafted , but music played so softly that it was almost inaudible to the human ear , a faint teasing melody that soothed the soul and created a restful atmosphere almost without one being aware of it . |
| 29 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 30 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |