Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 2 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 5 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 6 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 7 | It was opened so forcefully that one of the straps broke . |
| 8 | The original windows were steel-framed , in a stone mullion setting , and leaked so badly that all the conventional draught excluders proved useless ; my secondary double glazing , despite multiple magnetic and spring clips , was being blown out by wind pressure . |
| 9 | It grinned so broadly that both ends almost met behind its head . |
| 10 | Writing this down , I realize she is afraid , but this morning she shared her fear so publicly and laughed so heartily that this did n't strike me till now . |
| 11 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 12 | He screamed so loudly that all the other animals ran to help him . |
| 13 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 14 | Rose 's hands were shaking so badly that some of the contents of the glass spilled on her dress . |
| 15 | The burrows of these robber wasps are usually concealed so skilfully that few other animals are able to find them and rob them . |
| 16 | The number of books , theses and bound copies of periodicals is increasing so greatly that many libraries have a serious storage problem . |
| 17 | Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did . |
| 18 | The sets of values embedded in one 's goals in childhood have to be modified so radically and conflicts resolved so ruthlessly that few attempt it . |
| 19 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |