Example sentences of "'s [noun] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cried and wailed into Sally-Anne 's skirt so pitifully that Sally-Anne 's own fear of the brute before her was lost in sympathy for his wretched victim . |
| 2 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 3 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 4 | Elaine was gripping Francis 's hand so tightly that he yelped . |
| 5 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 6 | He plunged down , swung wildly , and ended up dangling over a bone-splintering death with his hands gripping the dragonlord 's arm so tightly that the man screamed . |