Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |
| 32 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 33 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |
| 34 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 35 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 36 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 37 | The pod was now shuddering so violently that Defries 's voice was distorted . |
| 38 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 41 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 42 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 43 | Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long . |
| 44 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 45 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 46 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 47 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 48 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 49 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 50 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 51 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 52 | Five short days ; it was n't long in which to have your life turned upside-down , changed so drastically that it would never be the same again , was it ? |
| 53 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 54 | These fly-by-night ‘ bosses ’ changed so frequently that workers would lose track of who was actually employing them . |
| 55 | Indeed , the situation changed so swiftly that there is almost no resemblance between the political maps of Spain for 1000 and 1050 , or again between those covering the times of the birth and death of El Cid . |
| 56 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | A word or phrase used so often that it becomes a slogan . |
| 59 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 60 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |