Example sentences of "so [adv] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That procedure became operative so effectively that I think the management subsequently realized that unless they had shop stewards who were capable of discussing the matter intently you know , and objectively , then they were on a loser , because they then stood to lose more productivity than hitherto . |
| 2 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 3 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 4 | They came in illegally low after bombing practice on the range just down the firth , blasting over the island so suddenly that I jumped while in the delicate manoeuvre of teasing a wasp into a jar from the old tree stump near the ruined sheep-pen at the north end of the island . |
| 5 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 6 | and in rugby so much can happen so quickly that I believe we have earned that 50–50 chance . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 9 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 10 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 11 | I called , and Crispin answered , so cheerfully that I knew all was well . |
| 12 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 13 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 14 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 15 | Then I was falling , so fast that I felt quite breathless . |
| 16 | ‘ The widow , ’ replied Hank , with more than a trace of impatience in his voice , and then continued : ‘ And it 's selling so fast that I do n't know what to do with the money . |
| 17 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 18 | Although he clearly wants to walk off the boat , the ambulance crew scramble on board and clamp him onto a stretcher , so firmly that I wonder if they think he might punch them . |
| 19 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |