Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him .
2 With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again .
3 By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on .
4 You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm .
5 Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness .
6 He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened .
7 Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it .
8 The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity .
9 The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches .
10 ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’
11 The pod was now shuddering so violently that Defries 's voice was distorted .
12 We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs .
13 The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol .
14 Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’
19 ‘ … swearing so loudly and disgustingly ?
20 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 .
21 Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said .
22 Thus , for example , in regard to proceedings in court , the mere absence of UK qualifications will not disqualify an EC lawyer from acting so long as he is instructed with and acts in conjunction with a UK lawyer .
23 Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots .
24 But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again .
25 Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ?
26 She was trembling so violently that the bed shook .
27 By the time of the next cabinet reshuffle , the Prime Minister will probably announce that all the departments are operating so splendidly that there is no more need for it .
28 For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) .
29 She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her .
30 He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult .
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