Example sentences of "so [adv] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 2 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 3 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 4 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 5 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 6 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 7 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 8 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 9 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 10 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 11 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 12 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 13 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 14 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 15 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 16 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 17 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 18 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 19 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 20 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |
| 21 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 22 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 23 | And summed up so well that it came to far more |
| 24 | In fact I 'm told we ran the three-day week so well that it did n't make enough impact on the country ; they did n't realize the crisis and thought they would n't support Ted Heath . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 26 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 27 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 28 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 29 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 30 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |