Example sentences of "so [adj] [that] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 2 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 3 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 4 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 5 | He sounded so disgusted that she seized her case and bolted through the door he indicated . |
| 6 | Lee suddenly felt so sad that she thought she would never move again . |
| 7 | He put his hands on her shoulders , towering over her , his powerful body so compelling that she thought she would fall if he let her go . |
| 8 | The smile had died from his eyes , and he tightened his arms round her so hard that she thought her ribs might crack . |
| 9 | He banged his cup down on its saucer , so hard that she expected it to shatter . |
| 10 | She was so angry that she ordered my father straight out of the house , and he has never seen her since . |
| 11 | After twenty-four hours she was so hungry that she dived her pale pink nose into the bucket instead of at him . |
| 12 | His gaze was so disturbing that she felt herself trembling . |
| 13 | but I 'm ever so pleased that she got her |
| 14 | And so miserable that she felt she would never drag herself out of this pit of misery . |
| 15 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 16 | Because she was so certain that she wanted someone older and more experienced to look after her baby than a young girl straight out of college , Celia had not bothered to mention Edna 's letter to Brian . |
| 17 | He made a move to start the engine but Maggie was so scared that she gripped his arm , quite forgetting who he was . |
| 18 | She gave a dark scowl , left the room and trudged downstairs , her mood so prickly that she knew it would only need one wrong word from Julius to trigger off her own temper . |
| 19 | An endless falling through time and space , and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die . |
| 20 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 21 | The pain in the region of her heart was so intense that she wrapped her arms around herself involuntarily . |
| 22 | On the day she was taken ill , Rose had a severe headache , which became so bad that she called her doctor , who asked a neurologist to visit her immediately at home . |