Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the crowd outside , sensing a scandal , pressed even more closely against the windows of the gallery and grew so thick that the traffic was held up . |
| 3 | We always laugh and joke and talk so much that Enid hushes us perpetually , and now he has nothing to say . |
| 4 | She returned to her room and felt so downcast that , choosing a time when she knew that her mother would be in , she phoned Reception for a call to England . |
| 5 | Waterers Landscaping became involved in the project in September and proved so popular that the original £150,000 contract grew and grew . |
| 6 | In Costa Rica , weekend workshops for women refugees were established by AMES and proved so successful that in June 198 ] a training centre was opened . |
| 7 | Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision . |
| 8 | Louise looked at Fleury and felt so vulnerable that presently she began to cry . |
| 9 | The ground sloped , strewn with fine moss and bark so soft and spongy that their footprints took minutes to disappear . |
| 10 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 11 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 12 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 13 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 14 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 15 | When I took my practical working examinations , making tree ties was worth a lot of marks and considered so vital that candidates who failed their tying failed tree planting , however well they did otherwise . |