Example sentences of "so [adv] that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 2 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 3 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 4 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 5 | But Li Lu 's daughter slept so soundly that in the end Dai Huang 's daughter dressed quickly . |
| 6 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 7 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 8 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 9 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 10 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 11 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 12 | I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognisable as the same person . |