Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 2 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 3 | She was trembling so violently that the bed shook . |
| 4 | Pinned beneath him , she was shaking so violently that she had to cling to him to steady herself . |
| 5 | She was working so well that her coffee was always cold before she remembered to drink it . |
| 6 | He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult . |
| 7 | And it was done through a trust then , and it was done so quietly that they had n't time to object . |
| 8 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 9 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 10 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 11 | It was opened so forcefully that one of the straps broke . |
| 12 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 13 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 14 | He struggled for a moment , but he was enclosed so tightly that he could not even work an arm free from his side . |
| 15 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 16 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 17 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |