Example sentences of "so badly that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They imitate us so badly that we ca n't respect them . |
| 2 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 3 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 4 | ‘ Filmophone ’ records were made of various colours of plastic , and had low surface-noise combined with great ruggedness ; but within a short time they warped so badly that they were unplayable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One or two need to be kept on the cool side , otherwise they grow too fast and weaken themselves so badly that they die . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 9 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 10 | Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it . |
| 11 | The author also hinted yesterday at fresh scandals to come which would damage Prince Charles ' reputation so badly that he could never become King . |
| 12 | He hit one so hard that he later died , and injured another so badly that he is still in hospital . |
| 13 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 14 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 15 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 16 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 17 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 18 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 19 | There was no brand name on the yarn and the work twisted so badly that she could not wear it . |
| 20 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 21 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 22 | She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft . |
| 23 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 24 | But had I hurt your pride so badly that you 'd leave for England — when you had n't done your interview yet ! ’ |
| 25 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 26 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 29 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |