Example sentences of "so [adj] that her " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be many in London society so rich that her inheritance was not a temptation to them ; it could not be made up only of rogues and fortune-hunters . |
| 2 | She had a brow so low that her hair seemed to begin sprouting from just above her eyes which moved independently . |
| 3 | Once she 'd had the baby , she immediately set about getting back to her ‘ normal ’ weight , even though that weight was so low that her body could not function normally . |
| 4 | In fact she was so wrathful that her mind conjured a bleak picture of the situation . |
| 5 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 6 | Mrs Radcliffe too shows more interest than Jane Austen in her peasants and their dwellings : mirth may co-exist with poverty and ignorance in hovels without chimneys or windows where men and beasts shelter together , while her more fortunate poor live in cottages so arcadian that her wandering gentlefolk may even stay in them overnight . |
| 7 | A woman , a fair lady , who would listen to him and be moved by him , moved so much that her eyes glittered before she turned her head away in gentle acknowledgement of his sincerity and his dignity . |
| 8 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 9 | Poor old no even her daughter Cheryl was laughing so much that her stomach was hurting and tell her to shut up . |
| 10 | She might be so bored that her jaw ached from trying not to yawn , but Nicolo — Nicolo looked as if he were about to explode . |
| 11 | With her heart thumping so hard that her ears were deaf to any other sounds , Sarah hurled herself down into the dip . |
| 12 | Alice screamed with laughter as Fernie gave her a jerk which pulled her forward so hard that her left shoe stayed behind , its heel bedded deep in the grass verge . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll scream ! ’ she mumbled , straining back so hard that her neck ached . |
| 14 | His mouth made a tight , grim line , and he began to shake her hard , so hard that her teeth rattled . |
| 15 | He gripped her so hard that her bones grated together , and she gasped in pain before stumbling as he pushed her away . |
| 16 | Found her teeth were clamped so tight that her face pained . |
| 17 | When she was so cold that her bare feet began to stick to the linoleum , she went back to bed and tried to stay awake . |
| 18 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |
| 19 | He sounded so rueful that her heart clenched , and she lowered her hand , sliding both arms loosely about him . |
| 20 | Although Tamar responded with a laugh , she had a feeling of guilt , deep within , to think that her visits were so infrequent that her mother feared she had brought bad news . |
| 21 | Dot was surprised to find herself wearing a large pink woollen nightgown with embroidered collar whose gathered sleeves were so long that her hands were lost . |
| 22 | She had ignored her ‘ whispers ’ for so long that her inner self was forced to send her urgent messages . |
| 23 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 24 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |
| 25 | Apparently the woman who is now so famous that her every offhand comments is carved in tablets of stone for FRANK SINATRA to jump up and down on , could not qualify for tea , biscuits and fainting spells because she 's seriously underweight . |
| 26 | By the water 's edge the king 's son split the last reed , and a beautiful girl came out , so beautiful that her like has never been seen before or since . |
| 27 | Her step , which had begun in unaccustomed buoyancy , began to shrink ; soon , she was trudging round and round with dispirited tread , and her hanging head became so weary that her neighbour , Elisabetta , holding her by the arm , dug her elbow into Rosalba 's ribs to bring her to . |
| 28 | This sparring routine of theirs had grown so familiar that her brain had more or less switched to automatic . |
| 29 | Another ex-Head Girl who now taught was Nellie Nixon , commonly called Nellie of the Knobbles because she was so thin that her muscles stood out . |
| 30 | She was so breathless that her bitter words sounded strangled . |