Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] his [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned slightly towards her , resting his weight on his elbow so that he could see her face , watch her lips as she spoke . |
| 2 | You could see he 'd stuck invisible tape over his mouth so as not to cry . |
| 3 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 4 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 5 | So the simple answer to our question is that God wants us to find something useful in this passage from His word so that we — people who serve God — or , in the other translations , men and women of God — may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed . |
| 6 | Again Scathach hushed the man , raising a beaker to his lips so that he could sip cool water . |
| 7 | She felt the command of his hands as they moved apart her pliant thighs , the move of his body so that now he was almost there , almost hers . |
| 8 | And , warm with dancing , he pulled off his jewelled hat , so that the brown hair fell free , and opened the close-pearled band of his doublet so that his throat might be bared to the air . |
| 9 | Where he does so the court associate must , at the conclusion of the trial , record that opinion in his certificate so that an appropriate reduction may be considered ( Ord 35 , r 10A ) . |
| 10 | The wait in the ironmonger 's and the noises of cars and motor bikes turning and revving in the street worsened the pressure at the back of his neck so that as he finally got the machine into his van and thought of the relief of reaching home and doing the mowing , black tadpoles shot across his vision , zigzagging through all dimensions . |
| 11 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 12 | He had been going to touch her shoulders with his arm , but she came towards him anyway , her head on his shoulders so that the perfume of her hair enveloped him , made his head feel light . |
| 13 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 14 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 15 | But no matter whether the ballet lasts one , two or three acts the choreographer must be fully in control of his material so that every detail of the characterisation of the whole cast is appropriate to the general atmosphere and environment within which the plot unfolds . |
| 16 | Shadows carved the flesh from his features so that she could see the fine lines of his skull , the hard mystery of essential bone . |
| 17 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 18 | With the same end in view , no doubt , he called her ‘ Molly Coddle ’ — a name he had never thought to use when she was a child — and he insisted on changing the sex of his grandchildren so that Henrietta became Henry or Hal , Samantha was naturally Sam , and the three-year-old Jacqueline ‘ Jack the Lad ’ . |
| 19 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 20 | He gave the impression of vulnerability by sitting with his chin on his chest so that he had no alternative but to look up through his eyebrows . |
| 21 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 22 | To get out he has to supply information about his identity so that he can be put into the right bureaucratic pigeon-hole . |
| 23 | Jess kicked out , catching the handle of his tankard so that a puddle of porter slopped on to the counter . |
| 24 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 25 | He fumbled his way into the chair provided for visitors and put a hand over his lips so that I should n't see how close he was to tears . |
| 26 | He bent his head and cupped her face between his hands so that she could n't look away . |
| 27 | So , basically , what they 're saying there 's all these things that they 'll provide at each stage of his journey so that if care is n't right he knows what channels to go through to complain . |
| 28 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |