Example sentences of "so [adv] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 3 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 6 | The producers liked the idea so much that they decided to make a two part series full of dancing , celebrations , cookery and food . |
| 7 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 8 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 9 | ‘ Because you ca n't face the truth that we are falling in love yet again ? ’ he suggested so calmly that she wanted to slap him hard for his change of mood . |
| 10 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 11 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 12 | The leading actor had believed in it so heartily that he had kicked it in mid-speech and got his foot embedded in it . |
| 13 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 14 | He was staring at her so intently that she wanted to cry out . |
| 15 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 16 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 17 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 18 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 19 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 20 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 21 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 22 | Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again , racing so fast that she began to feel faint . |
| 23 | Wigan began so explosively that they had raced into a 34–0 lead within a mere 20 minutes as they ran in six memorable tries . |
| 24 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 25 | ‘ I will love you always , ’ she whispered gravely , so softly that he needed to bend his dark head to hear her . |
| 26 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 27 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 28 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 29 | Pinned beneath him , she was shaking so violently that she had to cling to him to steady herself . |
| 30 | Indeed , Jarrolds took the bargain bookshop business last year so seriously that it decided to join in . |