Example sentences of "so that [pron] [vb past] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |
| 2 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 3 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 4 | The sorrow , the loneliness , the confusion disappeared with the taste of his lips on hers , with the hunger that communicated through his kiss , so that she burned with a desire unlike anything she had ever felt before . |
| 5 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 6 | At that moment , a voice did call , so that she jerked with shock . |
| 7 | Without consideration he ripped the tape from her skin so that she winced with the searing pain . |
| 8 | She took a quick break for lunch , gulping down a couple of sandwiches and a cup of coffee , then spent the afternoon painting the dragon , using dozens of different shades so that he shimmered with colour . |
| 9 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 10 | Stuart changed this so that he travelled with his team and stayed in the same cheap hotels . |
| 11 | The kitten was cradled in her arms and she ran her fingers gently up and down its stomach so that it purred with delight . |
| 12 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 13 | These three months were needed to draft the training pack so that it coordinated with the structure of the information drafts . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 15 | She made it sound French , pronouncing the word so that it rhymed with ‘ Vaseline ’ . |