Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 4 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 5 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 6 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 7 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 10 | The pod was now shuddering so violently that Defries 's voice was distorted . |
| 11 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 12 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear . |
| 14 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 15 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 16 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 17 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 18 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 19 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 20 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 21 | By the time of the next cabinet reshuffle , the Prime Minister will probably announce that all the departments are operating so splendidly that there is no more need for it . |
| 22 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult . |
| 24 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 25 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 26 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 27 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 28 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 29 | Although the latter 's earnings fell its dividend is handsomely covered , while a company like Rentokil is growing so healthily that it can afford to pay out the extra £1 million that its generosity has cost . |
| 30 | Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed . |