Example sentences of "so [that] her " in BNC.

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1 From there onwards it becomes stronger and more emotional so that her joyous movements and later abandon in Romeo 's arms are in absolute contrast to her later dance with Paris .
2 Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience .
3 When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte .
4 Her massively enlarged liver splinted her diaphragm , making her permanently breathless , and pressed on to her abdominal veins so that her legs became horribly swollen .
5 Mrs Pygling sent her in to spy on Jane and she prowled about with a cordless telephone , through which she had to talk very loud , so that her cracked voice and cackling laugh could be heard in every corner of the estate .
6 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 .
7 She had stepped aside , so that her face was in shadow .
8 She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet .
9 Downstairs in the hall , midnight struck , so that her own clock had been slow and she had seven hours and three minutes before morning and the sound of the milk bottles on the step , of Eleanor 's waking movements .
10 For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream .
11 But as she was writing a personal biography , she inevitably concentrated on Mary at a very personal level , so that her book is rather familiar ground well trod by its author than a foray into new territory .
12 When the English diplomat Sir Ralph Sadler visited her mother , Mary of Guise , on 22 March 1543 , the infant was duly unwrapped , so that her healthy state could be clearly seen , and Sadler could report that ‘ it is as goodly a child as I have seen of her age , and as like to live , with the grace of God ’ .
13 The terror bound her chest so that her breath came in the short , dry , painful gasps of a dying asthmatic .
14 She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen .
15 Queen Victoria had the curtains of her train window drawn when she passed through the region so that her eyes should not be offended by its ugliness and squalor .
16 And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage , gushed blood .
17 As she progressed , she began to learn how to correct her balance when she was displaced by the physiotherapist , so that her confidence in her balance on her left leg was increased .
18 Daisy , taking advantage of the disturbance , was adding gleefully to the chaos by bleating continuously , and rushing round and round in circles so that her tethering chain was soon shortened to a couple of feet .
19 When she was allowed out of bed the nurses ( who presumably had not received the instruction ) no longer assisted in washing her and the patient said that she would be glad to get home so that her legs and feet could be washed .
20 The session is discussed beforehand with the student so that her particular needs are met .
21 George Eliot twice had her head shaved so that her bumps could be read more accurately .
22 This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat .
23 On her second day Madame Mattli took her to Vidal Sassoon 's salon in Grosvenor House so that her hair could be cut in an up-to-the-minute style .
24 Winnie — she was half seas over ; so that her teeth were loose and her speech was slurred — said , ‘ Rab 's right sensitive about his health , so he is .
25 Primaflora rose and bestowed herself naturally , so that her skirts fell with grace .
26 At the same time , her oars sent her spinning into a turn , so that her iron beak pointed outward , ready to gore the towering sides of the Genoese .
27 I think your lombardoi is abrading her upper lip on something — possibly through digging too close to a rock , so that her upper lip gets rubbed .
28 Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver .
29 She had screamed so that her mother came .
30 so that her thumb ,
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