Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 2 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 3 | He felt her grow rigid at his touch , made it so light that she hardly knew that it was there . |
| 4 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , ’ the Doctor had said , and the memory of his voice was so real that she almost heard the words in her ears , ‘ if anyone wanted to infiltrate the TARDIS with any kind of intelligence , from a virus to an entire computer , they 'd only have to plug a cable into the socket under the console . |
| 6 | He gripped her wrist suddenly , so hard that she almost cried out . |
| 7 | She stared at the floor , turning pink and feeling so confused that she almost missed what Mr Hollins was saying . |
| 8 | Sometimes her loathing was so great that she even forgot her new determination . |
| 9 | Her desperation was now so great that she momentarily forgot his wound , striking out at him blindly . |
| 10 | She lived in Salford and was so poor that she often had to walk all the way to Manchester to rehearse . |
| 11 | The first she knew of Piers 's presence in the room was his light touch on her shoulder , and it was so unexpected that she almost jumped a mile into the air . |
| 12 | She was so startled that she just stood there like a dummy , and then , before she quite knew how it had happened , her wet sweater had been whipped over her head , a dry towel thrust into her hand and she was halfway into the hall . |
| 13 | For a second , she was so startled that she automatically stiffened , and he drew back . |
| 14 | Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over . |
| 15 | Isabel was so stunned that she nearly fell back on the pillows . |
| 16 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 17 | It was like the pain from an old wound , so familiar that she never noticed it until she deliberately picked at the scar . |
| 18 | She was so preoccupied that she merely nodded , but she looked up sharply when he added , ‘ Dawn has offered to help with any difficult operations where you might need assistance . ’ |
| 19 | His skin was so close that she barely had to move to touch him , taste him — to know all of him with all of her . |
| 20 | When she emerged , she found herself in a small square beside a canal so wide that she immediately realised it must be the Grand Canal itself . |