Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
| 2 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 3 | And when that smile , that patronizing masculine smile which she had endured so often , was beamed at her , she felt her confidence drain away and retreat with a scrabbling of small stones like a departing wave . |
| 4 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |
| 5 | For it was his room and his bed in which she had lain so snugly . |
| 6 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 7 | As she threaded her way through the guests she forced her lips to smile , though they still felt the pressure of the kiss to which she had yielded so weakly . |
| 8 | Marsha Rowe has edited an anthology of short stories which she has entitled So Very English ( Serpent 's Tail , pbk £7.99 ) . |
| 9 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 10 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 11 | This was a different Fernando from the one she had loved so passionately before . |
| 12 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |