Example sentences of "[verb] so hard that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
| 2 | With her heart thumping so hard that her ears were deaf to any other sounds , Sarah hurled herself down into the dip . |
| 3 | Her heart was thumping so hard that she could feel the breath catch in her chest . |
| 4 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 5 | A beautiful witch , Carrie thought , and her heart began to thump so hard that she was sure Hepzibah must hear it . |
| 6 | Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it |
| 7 | The object here is to train so hard that the muscles work mainly in an anaerobic fashion , and fatigue-producing lactic acid is produced . |
| 8 | Robyn was trembling so hard that she could barely breathe . |
| 9 | I practised so hard that several windows of the house were broken , and my ball was confiscated for a week , which broke the concentration as well as the window . |
| 10 | But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime . |
| 11 | He 's made me work so hard that I feel tired and ill . |
| 12 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 13 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 14 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 15 | Nails kicked the bicycle rack so hard that two bikes fell out . |
| 16 | They laughed so hard that Nathan had to pull off the road . |
| 17 | He laughed so hard that he had a fit of coughing which , in turn , caused big tears to roll down his face . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see what 's funny , ’ Carrie said , and this set him off properly : he laughed so hard that he had to stop running . |
| 19 | He cried so hard that he rained himself empty . |
| 20 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 21 | Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't seem to care very much , Myra , but you 're right — I do want the show to succeed ; so many people have worked so hard that I ca n't let them down . ’ |
| 23 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 24 | The crisis is hitting so hard that most of the people are unemployed , and you see children begging in the streets or forced to go out to work . |
| 25 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 26 | She kept maniacally busy so as not to feel sorrow and set herself the goal of working so hard that at night she fell into bed exhausted . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 28 | ‘ Most did n't see it that way , ’ uttered Ruth , her heart beating so hard that it was unreal . |