Example sentences of "so [adv] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 4 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 5 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 6 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it . |
| 9 | The author also hinted yesterday at fresh scandals to come which would damage Prince Charles ' reputation so badly that he could never become King . |
| 10 | He hit one so hard that he later died , and injured another so badly that he is still in hospital . |
| 11 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 12 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 16 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 17 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 18 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 21 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 25 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 26 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 27 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 28 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 29 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 30 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |