Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 2 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 3 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 4 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 5 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 6 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 7 | If you then take the point that it 's beyond the greenbelt , again you 've limited the area of search and if we take the point that Mr I think put across so well that it 's consistent with sub-regional policy , you already immediately then rule out that part of the erm area round Greater York that would have greatest impact on the Leeds Conurbation . |
| 8 | In fact the scenes passed by so rapidly that it is difficult to keep up with them . |
| 9 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |