Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 2 | That was what caused the hysteria and enthusiasm and so , I felt that if the band on stage was at least so close to his sense of humour that he felt comfortable with them , if the crew and all the support system was so strong that he could relax enough to enjoy the crowd , only then would it get magnetic and spontaneous . |
| 3 | And he is not yet so low that he can not bring down many a better man . |
| 4 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 5 | A few brief thoughts : if Mike Tyson appeals , is found guilty again , then takes his case to the US Supreme Court , it is entirely possible that he will have his case heard by Judge Clarence Thomas . |
| 6 | But to his surprise the drink was light , young , and faintly flavoured with honey , together with another taste , so subtle that he could not identify it . |
| 7 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 8 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 9 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 10 | I knew I looked so different that he would not recognize me , but I was afraid all the same . |
| 11 | He had climbed so high that he could see damaged slates on the roof of the house and sections of guttering choked with leaves and other debris . |
| 12 | When neighbours tried to visit , she had Jennifer send them away , and when they said Mr Drew might be coming down to call on her , she became very agitated because the last thing she wanted was a turncoat parson at her deathbed , and she was so afraid that he might confiscate her silver Madonna that she had Jennifer take it from her neck and put round her own . |
| 13 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 14 | Folly felt a fresh wave of desire sweep through her , and was terribly afraid that he would see it too . |
| 15 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |
| 16 | A full corona might tell him far more than he needed to know — so much that he would end up by knowing nothing precise at all . |
| 17 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 18 | He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe . |
| 19 | But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate . |
| 20 | There was so much that he could tell him . ’ |
| 21 | Hurt so much that he could be hurt no more . |
| 22 | It was a great day when he found , not so much that he could still play , but that he still wanted to . |
| 23 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 24 | Has the hon. Gentleman , who reads with his lips so much that he could almost give lessons to the Leader of the Opposition , read the amendment which deals with precisely this issue ? |
| 25 | At first the result was that his lungs hurt so much that he could hardly stand up . |
| 26 | Cerebral palsy had reduced his co-ordination and limb movement so much that he could n't even crawl . |
| 27 | Five doctors said that his condition was now so serious that he would not last the night : he was rushed to hospital , paralysed on his left side and in a deep coma . |
| 28 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 29 | His tone of voice was so bland that he might as well have been asking my opinion of Wavebreaker 's sea-keeping qualities . |
| 30 | The smile she flashed into Rune 's brooding face was so blinding that he must have wished he 'd brought sunglasses with him , Gina thought uncharitably , wondering how he would take his peremptory dismissal to the bar . |