Example sentences of "so [adv] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 2 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 3 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 4 | Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test . |
| 5 | His fellow pupils at school suffered so badly that Mary became a constant visitor to the headmaster 's study , and Gary was banned from the playground . |
| 6 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 7 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 8 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 9 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 10 | So suddenly that Jed jumped . |
| 11 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 12 | The man spun round so swiftly that George was taken aback and tripped , falling onto the soft mud . |
| 13 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 14 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
| 15 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
| 17 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 18 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
| 19 | Dana stirred her tea , swirling it round and round so rapidly that Claudia thought she would wash it out of the cup . |
| 20 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |
| 21 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Ian and laughed so genuinely that Julia was reassured . |
| 22 | Laura declared , so viciously that Ross hoped his ex-personal assistant had the good sense to stay in Australia . |
| 23 | ‘ Hallo ? ’ he repeated , rather louder than necessary and so carefully that Hugh could hear the vowels tinkling into place . |
| 24 | In spite of his strange , clouded manner , he spoke so reasonably that Hazel felt rather ashamed . |
| 25 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 26 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 27 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 28 | Inside the whale , for three days and three nights , Jonah prayed to the Lord and swore his future obedience so convincingly that God ordered the fish to vomit up the penitent . |
| 29 | Mrs Scutt bellowed with laughter , slapped him hard on the back , and explained herself so plainly that Charlie went purple behind his mask . |
| 30 | Strikers Goodman and McGinlay played so well that Armstrong 's absence was hardly noticed . |