Example sentences of "so [adv] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 2 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 3 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 4 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 5 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 6 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 7 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 8 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 9 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 10 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 11 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 12 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 13 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 14 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 15 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 16 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 17 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 18 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 19 | Dougal reached for it so quickly that he knocked over one of his candles . |
| 20 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 21 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He slept so deeply that he did not hear Mrs Dempster come in . |
| 24 | His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words . |
| 25 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 26 | He was depressed , so severely that he took to his bed . |
| 27 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 28 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 29 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 30 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |