Example sentences of "so [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 31 | At that moment , a voice did call , so that she jerked with shock . |
| 32 | Reluctantly , Jinny looked away from the woman so that she could inspect him . |
| 33 | He hauled the basket up the slope , towards the place where Jinny had been , so that she could retrieve hers , but he did not stop there . |
| 34 | There seemed to be a block in her chest so that she could not breathe properly . |
| 35 | She gave Gloria money so that she would n't have to pretend Dot was a babe-in-arms . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The gardener found her a length of binding twine in a shed so that she could learn to skip . |
| 38 | I had to send her a greetings telegram , so that she would not be alarmed at the sight of the envelope , saying : DARLING MUM I AM MARRIED TO MY MUSE AND HAVE NO INTENTION OF SEEKING A DIVORCE SO DO N'T WORRY I 'LL BE A BACHELOR GAY FOR ME REST OF MY LIFE LOVE JIM . |
| 39 | Yet , I thought , it was necessary to speak , so that she could hear my voice — the family voice . |
| 40 | Might not some echo of it reach her mind , so that she would know someone of hers had been near ; that she had not been deserted ? |
| 41 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 42 | ‘ Eh ? ’ said Bella , surprised out of her personal nightmare : the one where she sat , in a big room , unable to move , imprisoned in her crippled body , surrounded by a sea of senile faces , while a pitying young woman stuck a baby 's cup between her toothless gums so that she could suck lukewarm tea out of it . |
| 43 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 44 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 45 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 46 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 47 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 48 | On the other hand , that model might be saying that so that she does n't have the envy of thousands of women heaped on her head ! |
| 49 | I will love him , Lily , like this , ’ and Pen gave her a strangling hug so that she gasped and laughed and begged to be released . |
| 50 | She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . |
| 51 | There was something cold-blooded about using his father 's death to make a poem ; she had changed the names so that she could attempt to get it published , and it was going to be . |
| 52 | It was quite another for Mary to spend her childhood and adolescence in the most powerful and civilized country in Europe , which was also Scotland 's traditional ally , so that she might assume that what she learned there was not the product of hostile bias . |
| 53 | It was a rhetorical question but Elisabeth was pleased to be distracted , given an opening , so that she might contribute to the conversation . |
| 54 | Evelyn could hardly wait for dinner time so that she could say something to Jackie . |
| 55 | A ballerina 's performances are limited to two a month , and so-called critics are ‘ dictated ’ what to write , so that she does n't get ideas . |
| 56 | She took her jacket off the hook and poked it above the suitcase , so that she had a free hand … |
| 57 | Further back , Judi had envied Anne her college boyfriend , had always tried to impress and amuse the older girl , had briefly tried to copy her clothes and food preferences , had longed to be asked to share her toys so that she could express her devotion through generosity . |
| 58 | The power in the sails lifted the yacht so that she left two long trails of dark blue in the spray . |
| 59 | The weight of the water forced Golden Girl down , as Trent had planned , so that she was little more than awash . |
| 60 | Leaving her in peace so that she could think , he stripped the cover from the BMW . |