Example sentences of "so [conj] [pron] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skin tones varied , and scars like scarlet ropes ran about the anatomy , so that one was reminded of a butcher 's diagram . |
| 2 | Er , once they were able to leave the home and so that everyone was looked after , they never left our care really and |
| 3 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |
| 4 | Rows of silver and china objects filled the mantlepiece and the top of the dressing-table ; there were looking-glasses there and two , framed in mahogany , fixed to the wall , either side of a great gleaming wardrobe so that everything was magnified by reflection , the cushions , the lamps , the fire , the flowered fabrics , the rugs laid on the carpet . |
| 5 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 6 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 7 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 8 | There was a caress in his tone that she had n't heard since Boxing Day , and then he sat down beside her and pulled her across so that she was cradled against him instead of against the cool white pillows . |
| 9 | He swung his legs around so that he was perched on the edge of the bunk . |
| 10 | Burun was in one of them , sitting with his back to the side pillar , his booted feet stretched out along the sill so that he was perched above a sheer drop to the marble-floored hallway below . |
| 11 | He fought his own despairs and his own bitternesses , and he had believed that he had built up an inner tranquillity and a strength , so that he was armoured against the lure of any woman . |
| 12 | A spare car was in Chamonix and Emerson was the one who went to fetch it , so that he was exhausted by the time free practice began on Thursday afternoon . |
| 13 | She picked up her book and began reading , making a show of turning the pages so that he was left in no doubt that his presence next to her was the last thing she needed . |
| 14 | Certainly the Devon , in the late eighteenth century , was described by William Marshall ( 1796 ) as being ‘ in size somewhat below the desirable point for the heavier works of husbandry ’ , making up for this deficiency with its agility and exertion so that it was regarded as the best worker in Britain . |
| 15 | Placing the egg in the palm of his right hand , Vic let it roll up his forearm and then jerked his elbow so that it was propelled into the air . |
| 16 | He lowered his voice so that it was drowned by the raucous chatter of the men in the rear seats . |
| 17 | It was not , of course , private — simply a patch of sand directly beneath four Winds , where the rocks jutted out on either side so that it was screened from the rest of the bay and , at high tide , sometimes cut off from it . |
| 18 | Subsidise it ; bail it out ; or nationalise it , so that it was protected by the bottomless purse of the taxpayer . |
| 19 | Subsequently , the statement of claim was amended so that it was restricted to the tax assessment under s 488 , TA 1970 . |
| 20 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 21 | All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head . |
| 22 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 23 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 24 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 25 | The Barwickers wish to keep their tradition , so when it was lowered on Easter Monday 1987 I was there to watch . |