Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made them so unpopular that they are n't even commemorated in a country name . |
| 2 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 3 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 4 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 5 | He befuddled them so much that we just ended up paying them off . ’ |
| 6 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 7 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
| 8 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 9 | Just why she found it so disturbing that Luke was planning to fly her she was n't quite sure . |
| 10 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 11 | It changed it so much that you co committed an offence that ended you up in |
| 12 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 13 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 14 | His much loved wife , Anne of Bohemia , died in 1394 , and this affected him so much that he felt everyone and everything was against him . |
| 15 | This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ? |
| 16 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 17 | Boswell loathed him so much that his first edition of the Tour to the Hebrides had to be amended on account of the unflattering position he took on Sir Alexander . |
| 18 | That piece of information shook her so much that she put up no resistance to being led off , except to say , ‘ Where are we going ? ’ |
| 19 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 20 | Who could the woman be , who admired him so much that she sent him a valentine ? |
| 21 | He hated her so much that he refused even to see her as a person . |
| 22 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 23 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
| 24 | She enjoyed it so much that she fancied celebrating her next birthday with a Concorde flight to New York . |
| 25 | It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy ! |
| 26 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 27 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 28 | The sound of the door opening and of voices as people came out on to the deck shocked her so much that she felt physically sick . |
| 29 | The inevitable clear soup followed ( pot au feu this time ) ; the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese , and the dean 's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel 's initial peevishness began to wear off . |
| 30 | She 'd been convinced he respected her so much that he had intentions of a more permanent nature . |