Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] so [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a bell at the end , which was rung by the ticket-collector or guard to warn the women of his approach so that they could cover themselves appropriately . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now he did smile , and it changed him completely , lifting the lines of his face so that he appeared hardly older than herself , though she knew from Miss Beard that he was almost thirty . |
| 5 | The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face . |
| 6 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 7 | Nicholson remained slightly ahead of his group so that they could never quite see the expression of disdain of his face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So if a husband is considering taking out a PP , he should certainly discuss the terms with his wife so that they both understand what is being given up . |
| 12 | When he finally moved back to lie beside her , he pulled her into his arms so that her head came to rest on his chest . |
| 13 | He sat down next to her and the sofa dipped under his weight so that it was an effort to keep her body erect . |
| 14 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 15 | The shelter curved well above his head so that they could both stand quite comfortably inside . |
| 16 | ‘ And what makes you think I do n't love you back , Lindie ? ’ he whispered softly , twisting her gently in his arms so that his lips were very close to her own . |
| 17 | Sorvino hitched around in his seat so that he could follow . |
| 18 | Where he had torn the dress from her shoulders the gentle swell of one breast gave promise of the advent of rich womanhood and he longed to cup it in his hand so that its sweet warmth rested against his own flesh . |
| 19 | Willie had grown used to the changes in his room so that he was pleasantly surprised at Zach 's excitement over it . |
| 20 | Robert leaned back in his chair so that his ear was touching the wall . |
| 21 | He twisted in his chair so that he could look at her , and she leaned down and kissed his forehead . |
| 22 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | THERE has been much comment in Blackpool about the way John Smith claps his hands , elbows out from his side so that his arms form a bar across his chest , hands thundering into each other with short , sharp smacks . |
| 25 | The Gaijin who were with Sipotai had melted away from his side so that he was left alone in the middle of an escort of Merkuts . |
| 26 | Shadows carved the flesh from his features so that she could see the fine lines of his skull , the hard mystery of essential bone . |
| 27 | He held his automatic out sideways , away from his body so that they could not aim in on its flash , and fired two shots at the left-hand headlight of the Dodge . |
| 28 | His mind had become detached from his body so that he was watching himself . |
| 29 | Like every other officer cadet he had spent three weeks with every hair shaved from his body so that he could be immersed in a tank of oxygenated fluorocarbon . |
| 30 | 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 . |