Example sentences of "so that she could [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
2 | He felt her cheeks run wet with tears , then heard her breaths shorten as he entered her ; then fully , masterfully , possessed her body , so that she could no longer free herself if she would . |
3 | Close by , in peaceful PAPPLEWICK village , Robin Hood halted the marriage of one Ellen to an ageing knight so that she could instead marry the lovelorn Alan-a-Dale . |
4 | As had happened the day before , the time simply flew for Fabia , so that she could again hardly believe it when Ven told her that they would take the funicular a little way down the hill to a restaurant where they would have lunch . |
5 | Antoine faltered , sagging against her so that she could barely sustain his weight . |
6 | He held her closely , not talking , and she was grateful for the silence so that she could just be . |
7 | That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more . |
8 | Blindly she moved forward , panic crashing now through every barrier she had managed , through her twenty precarious years , to erect against it , flooding her whole mind , sweeping away her sense of reason and reality , so that she could already feel the coarse fustian of prison clothing and workhouse clothing against her body as she ran , could feel her skin crawl from every one of prison 's basic indignities , her stomach heave with revulsion . |
9 | His hands strayed down to a spot just below the first frill on her skirt and he pushed his hips against hers so that she could clearly feel the bulge between his legs . |
10 | In the final condition , the mother was hidden behind a metal screen so that she could neither see nor be seen by the pair in the observation room . |
11 | She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way . |
12 | Presently she could see him again ; his head was erect , but his eyes were cast down so that she could only see the dark . |
13 | The defendant counterclaimed that as a residential occupier she was protected by section 3 of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 so that she could only be evicted by means of execution of a warrant of possession , and she sought damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 .. |
14 | The man had stopped pacing now ; he was talking , at first quietly , so that she could only see his lips moving through a screen of ferns , then he began arguing , gesticulating , running through the phrases again and again like an actor in rehearsal , pleading with someone who was n't there . |
15 | He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’ |
16 | The necklace was a collar of dull silver , two hinged silver pieces knobbed with moonstones which snapped into place around her lean neck and rose up almost to her chin so that she could hardly move her head . |
17 | ‘ Very poetic , my little tormenter , ’ he chided , tightening his arms even more so that she could hardly breathe . |
18 | He came closer and sat beside her on the grass , close , so that she could hardly concentrate on what she was supposed to be saying . |