Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 2 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 3 | They are of the opinion that a Wooden Bridge on the water of Killarow near the Walk-Mill is very necessary , and should be built as soon as possible and made so sufficient that Horses may pass . |
| 4 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 5 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 6 | Her step , which had begun in unaccustomed buoyancy , began to shrink ; soon , she was trudging round and round with dispirited tread , and her hanging head became so weary that her neighbour , Elisabetta , holding her by the arm , dug her elbow into Rosalba 's ribs to bring her to . |
| 7 | Matters became so serious that in August 1979 Sir Maurice Oldfield , the former Chief of MI6 — and model for John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley — was sent to Northern Ireland to cover the differences between MI6 , MI5 , Army intelligence and the RUC . |
| 8 | Their relationship became so serious that , according to at least one account , he asked her to marry him . |
| 9 | However , the August fishing became so appalling that my companion and I decided to try a week in May . |
| 10 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 11 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 12 | Attacks on individuals became so frequent that there were notably fewer people on the streets after dark then was usual . |
| 13 | Supplies became so critical that by March 3rd several batteries of howitzers had to be withdrawn altogether . |
| 14 | The label sponsored Fulchester United in Viz for a year , only pulling out when Viz became so successful that Go ! |
| 15 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 16 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 17 | ‘ I spoke to Robert — he called Dawn and she became so hysterical that I could n't understand her . |
| 18 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 19 | ‘ No , not falling apart , ’ said Rohmer , raising his voice over the groaning , cracking , straining noise as it now became so loud that surely it must burst apart like a bomb , killing them all in the process . |
| 20 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 21 | They were an organisation of " warrior monks " who became so powerful that they were eventually disbanded by the Crown . |
| 22 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 23 | And when the film 's director , Alfred Hitchcock , threw a party at his house , Clift became so drunk that his co-star Karl Malden carried him out in his arms . |
| 24 | When this process was repeated several times the particles of the starting material became so small that the total surface area available for reaction was very great . |
| 25 | ‘ After ten minutes , ’ wrote J.C.Trewin , ‘ the little piece became so predictable that it needed acting of quite uncommon quality to heighten it . |
| 26 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 27 | The tour became so popular that , when all twenty-four toastracks were in service , any other usable car in the depot was pressed into service . |
| 28 | With its efficient sights , this became so popular that it soon almost ousted the longbow ; in fact this was the last meeting at which the silver arrow was won by an archer using a longbow . |
| 29 | One , Jim 's Inn , became so popular that its cast produced an LP . |
| 30 | News at Ten quickly became so popular that the companies built their evening scheduling round it . |