Example sentences of "he [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out . |
| 2 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 3 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 4 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 5 | Loki was caught and punished by ODIN several times , once being imprisoned beneath the earth 's surface where he shook so violently that the world trembled . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's my duty , ’ he replied so piously that Corbett leaned back and roared with laughter . |
| 7 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 8 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 9 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ I do , Ruth , ’ he breathed so passionately that she was almost seduced into believing him . |
| 11 | He swore so violently that he nearly fell off ; then he froze . |
| 12 | He talked so steadily that I could hardly thank him . |
| 13 | When we compare such a view with that of Althusser , we can see why he feels so strongly that the scope of Marx 's theory has not been recognised . |
| 14 | He screamed so loudly that all the other animals ran to help him . |
| 15 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 16 | He listened so politely that I perhaps talked a little too much about my dear country . |
| 17 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 18 | THE SOPHISTICATED Miss Gertrude Jekyll , gardening heroine of the Edwardians , commissioned Edwin Lutyens to design her Surrey homestead , and this he did so beautifully that their relationship was cemented and many future joint commissions ensued . |
| 19 | There are days when he moves so slowly that we are not only outstripped by joggers , but overtaken by old ladies out exercising their dogs . |
| 20 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 21 | In spite of his strange , clouded manner , he spoke so reasonably that Hazel felt rather ashamed . |
| 22 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
| 23 | His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words . |
| 24 | He slept so deeply that he did not hear Mrs Dempster come in . |
| 25 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
| 26 | He left so quickly that she stared in astonishment at the door he had closed behind him . |
| 27 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 28 | ‘ Because you ca n't face the truth that we are falling in love yet again ? ’ he suggested so calmly that she wanted to slap him hard for his change of mood . |