Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 2 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 3 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 4 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 5 | Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 8 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 9 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |