Example sentences of "so that [pers pn] appeared [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she saw the man 's face through the open mouth and immediately turned her head away so that she appeared to be looking at something of consuming interest outside the window . |
| 2 | Simon could n't afford to let himself be divorced ; Constanza did some extremely quixotic things and they managed to fix it so that she appeared to be the guilty party . |
| 3 | ‘ My taking the veil ? ’ said the nun , so that she appeared to be joking . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Around it Willie had added rain so that it appeared to be flying against a great wind . |
| 6 | " The custom of disguising reality so that it appeared to be perfect " had long been the tactic of the Franco regime . |