Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [conj] he was " in BNC.

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1 His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips .
2 Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise .
3 She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her .
4 But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup .
5 His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence .
6 Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego .
7 They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools .
8 By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak .
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