Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
2 | But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued . |
3 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
4 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
5 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
6 | Alice sat thinking so intently that the kitchen , Bert and Pat , even the house around her vanished . |