Example sentences of "[art] [noun] so [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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1 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
2 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
3 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
4 | She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china . |
5 | He was removed quickly and taken to hospital to have ten stitches in an ear so badly lacerated that the cartilage was exposed . |
6 | For several seconds , as their gazes met and held , she was disturbingly aware of the strong , sun-bronzed column of his throat , the startlingly blue gaze which studied her with an intensity so vibrantly sexual that it almost took her breath away before he turned his attention to the American couple . |