Example sentences of "so hard that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 2 | The object here is to train so hard that the muscles work mainly in an anaerobic fashion , and fatigue-producing lactic acid is produced . |
| 3 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 4 | She had quite literally thrown herself at him , she had bitten him in the neck so hard that he had bled , she had scratched his face and torn his clothes . |
| 5 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 7 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 8 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 9 | Now , now , ’ said Lee , nearly shouting and banging his head against the shed so hard that the whole thing shook . |
| 10 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 11 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 12 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 13 | Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . |
| 14 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 15 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 16 | With this money , he was able to pay all his supporters , and with this added incentive he pressed the Moorish Caliphs so hard that they submitted to him , sueing for peace in the April of 1090 . |
| 17 | Nails kicked the bicycle rack so hard that two bikes fell out . |
| 18 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 19 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 20 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 21 | The frost was so hard that everything went steel grey — the ground , the water and the sky . |
| 22 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 23 | After a year it was so hard that Chola and Mina had to hack it out with adzes . |
| 24 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 25 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
| 26 | They laughed so hard that Nathan had to pull off the road . |
| 27 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 28 | With her heart thumping so hard that her ears were deaf to any other sounds , Sarah hurled herself down into the dip . |
| 29 | ‘ Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt . ’ |
| 30 | Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt |