Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 3 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 4 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 5 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 6 | There are more than 600 varieties of mint which interbreed so readily that it can be hard to tell them apart . |
| 7 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 8 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 9 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |
| 10 | Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her . |
| 11 | She sighed so heavily that her whole ribcage moved . |
| 12 | They begged Franca to come too , and she declined so tactfully that they could all , without awkwardness , smile over the plan and even discuss it . |
| 13 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she breathed so softly that she wondered if he had heard . |
| 14 | ‘ And now she adores another — that 's life ! ’ she clipped so tightly that it was quite plain she was hurt . |
| 15 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |
| 16 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ said Dierdriu , but now she spoke so softly that Fergus had to move closer to hear her . |
| 18 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 19 | She wished so desperately that she was coming home with good news . |
| 20 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 21 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything happened so rapidly that it afterwards seemed part of an evil dream , ’ Edward said slowly . |
| 23 | They thought that we were going straight , we and we thought so too that we would just go straight over the , through London . |
| 24 | ‘ Then when I met John Leguizamo , we clicked so well that they used to call us Laurel and Hardy . |
| 25 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 26 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 27 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 28 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 29 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 30 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |