Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him .
2 By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on .
3 The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity .
4 ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear .
5 She was trembling so violently that the bed shook .
6 Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed .
7 Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written .
8 Her head was throbbing so vilely that the effort was too much .
9 But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas .
10 She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her .
11 Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth .
12 Carolyn could see that she had her right hand clasped around the fingers of her left , and was squeezing so tightly that the finger ends were white and bloodless .
13 Her Uncle lay quite still , eyes closed and breathing so faintly that the bedclothes hardly stirred .
14 Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered .
15 Alice sat thinking so intently that the kitchen , Bert and Pat , even the house around her vanished .
16 The cell door opened , and as the visitors left , Fagin started struggling and fighting with his guards , screaming so loudly that the prison walls rang with the sound .
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