Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 2 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 3 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 4 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 5 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 6 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 7 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 8 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 9 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 10 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 11 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 12 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 13 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 14 | The time had passed so quickly that she had n't realised how late it was , or that the daylight had faded to dusk . |
| 15 | Their last meeting had ended so unpleasantly that it was difficult to change course suddenly . |
| 16 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 17 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |
| 18 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |