Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 2 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 7 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 8 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 9 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 10 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 11 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 12 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 13 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 14 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 15 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 16 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 17 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The time had passed so quickly that she had n't realised how late it was , or that the daylight had faded to dusk . |
| 20 | Their last meeting had ended so unpleasantly that it was difficult to change course suddenly . |
| 21 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 22 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |