Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 2 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |
| 3 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 4 | The stone hit her square on the flank and she yelped , but their genitals were so tightly locked together that neither dog could move . |
| 5 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 6 | Since each dyke is quite narrow , averaging only ten metres wide , that 's an awful lot of dykes , and a cross-section through Iceland would reveal hundreds and hundreds , sometimes so closely spaced together that there would be scarcely any non-dyke material present and many dykes would be intruded up the middle of earlier ones . |