Example sentences of "so that he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 2 | Jane smiled cheerfully , so that he thought she was being charitable , or even contemptuous , and he looked down at his hands . |
| 3 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 4 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 5 | And she drew his hand closer and laid her cheek on it , so that he knew she , too , was thinking of Bruges , when she had allowed him that right , and of Ghent , and of a place by a waterfall . |
| 6 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 7 | The sergeant would go sniffing around so that he showed he knew what you were doing . |
| 8 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 9 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 10 | He had turned so that he faced her , his body propped on that deformed arm of his , the sleeve of his anorak empty , the metal forearm and hand stuffed incongruously into his pack . |