Example sentences of "so hard that [pron] " in BNC.

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31 Although royal icing should be firm , it should not be so hard that it can not be cut with a knife .
32 ‘ Most did n't see it that way , ’ uttered Ruth , her heart beating so hard that it was unreal .
33 She set down his drink so hard that it sloshed out of the glass .
34 ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards .
35 Try not to tense the muscles so hard that you produce cramp or pain .
36 you had to belt the players so hard that you ended up with small bruises all over your hand from where their heads indented .
37 Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it
38 She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes .
39 And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch .
40 They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head .
41 And with that she dug him in his ribs so hard that he nearly fell off his chair .
42 He hit one so hard that he later died , and injured another so badly that he is still in hospital .
43 He laughed so hard that he had a fit of coughing which , in turn , caused big tears to roll down his face .
44 ‘ I do n't see what 's funny , ’ Carrie said , and this set him off properly : he laughed so hard that he had to stop running .
45 The rain began just before dawn , striking the roof so hard that he woke , startled , from a fast sleep which had been hard won .
46 Jannie squeezed Bob 's hand so hard that he flinched .
47 He cried so hard that he rained himself empty .
48 ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in .
49 But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over .
50 My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping .
51 There was no sign of a stone circle , and I began to wonder whether I was lost — and yet I was being ‘ pulled ’ so hard that I was forced to run .
52 ‘ But the ground 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in .
53 He 's made me work so hard that I feel tired and ill .
54 He struck me hard , very hard , so hard that I still feel it , across the face .
55 ‘ I do n't seem to care very much , Myra , but you 're right — I do want the show to succeed ; so many people have worked so hard that I ca n't let them down . ’
56 I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen .
57 This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England .
58 Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing .
59 He was magnificently tall , broad , and handsome , and Anna stared at him so hard that she tripped , and fell up the steps .
60 But that , too , was the time when Mrs Aggie struck her so hard that she had fallen on her back , and all because she had called Mrs Nelson ‘ a bloody cow ’ .
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