Example sentences of "[art] [noun] so [adv] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless ( clue : he lives in Wallyford ) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80′ near groundfall when six runners ripped ! ! |
| 2 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 4 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 5 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 6 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 7 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 8 | Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play . |
| 9 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 10 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 11 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 12 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 13 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 14 | There it seems that from the earliest days of the pioneer settlers the black cat was linked with the devil so strongly that it was , in any context , an evil force . |
| 15 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 16 | The dish should fit the meat so well that it does n't take too much liquid to just cover the meat . |
| 17 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 18 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 19 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 20 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 21 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |
| 22 | Oh I have no doubt of course I never I despise the woman so heartily that I never ask any questions about it . |
| 23 | They came in illegally low after bombing practice on the range just down the firth , blasting over the island so suddenly that I jumped while in the delicate manoeuvre of teasing a wasp into a jar from the old tree stump near the ruined sheep-pen at the north end of the island . |
| 24 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 25 | George Alcock knows the sky so well that he can identify 30000 stars by memory , and can identify any newcomer at a glance . |
| 26 | Night Goblins hate their old rivals the Dwarfs so intensely that they will often fight to the death rather than run away . |
| 27 | What you are doing is feeling the music so deeply that you are playing a 5/4 bar . |
| 28 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 29 | The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square . |
| 30 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |