Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 61 | When it was running , the geyser roared so loudly that the place felt like a rocket in the middle of a take off . |
| 62 | 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 . |
| 63 | His fellow pupils at school suffered so badly that Mary became a constant visitor to the headmaster 's study , and Gary was banned from the playground . |
| 64 | And with unnerving certainty she knew that something was in the corridor with her — something that blended its colour and shape so perfectly that it was invisible . |
| 65 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 66 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 67 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 68 | It was all done so genteelly that it set McAllister 's teeth on edge . |
| 69 | And it was done through a trust then , and it was done so quietly that they had n't time to object . |
| 70 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 71 | ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear . |
| 72 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 73 | Strikers Goodman and McGinlay played so well that Armstrong 's absence was hardly noticed . |
| 74 | From cunningly concealed speakers piped music wafted , but music played so softly that it was almost inaudible to the human ear , a faint teasing melody that soothed the soul and created a restful atmosphere almost without one being aware of it . |
| 75 | The children were wedged so tightly that it was difficult to move . |
| 76 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 77 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 78 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 79 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 80 | For we , like all animal species , have an optimum group size and it is one that we have exceeded so dramatically that our species is already well on its way to massive self-destruction . |
| 81 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 82 | but they 're gon na taxed so heavily that they ca n't afford to live in it under this new tax ! |
| 83 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 84 | The Spanish Armada was defeated so decisively that the English often reckoned that their command of the sea began then , although it was never secure until the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 85 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 86 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 87 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 88 | Warming occurs so slowly that the descending lithosphere retains its high density characteristics for a very long time . |
| 89 | She was so pleased that he was able to talk so frivolously that she hardly distinguished what he was actually saying . |
| 90 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |