Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 2 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 6 | Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed . |
| 7 | In the second kind of solution , the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it , though it does slow it down a bit . |
| 8 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 9 | Her head was throbbing so vilely that the effort was too much . |
| 10 | In June 1977 , six months before Fisher 's report was published , the tide of opinion was running so strongly that the Prime Minister announced the appointment of a Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure . |
| 11 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 12 | Carolyn could see that she had her right hand clasped around the fingers of her left , and was squeezing so tightly that the finger ends were white and bloodless . |
| 13 | Her Uncle lay quite still , eyes closed and breathing so faintly that the bedclothes hardly stirred . |
| 14 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 15 | Nicholas was standing so still that the thick painted glass struck motionless light from his chain , and his face was glazed like a jug with mixed colours . |
| 16 | Alice sat thinking so intently that the kitchen , Bert and Pat , even the house around her vanished . |
| 17 | The cell door opened , and as the visitors left , Fagin started struggling and fighting with his guards , screaming so loudly that the prison walls rang with the sound . |