Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] so [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sorvino hitched around in his seat so that he could follow . |
| 6 | Willie had grown used to the changes in his room so that he was pleasantly surprised at Zach 's excitement over it . |
| 7 | He twisted in his chair so that he could look at her , and she leaned down and kissed his forehead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His mind had become detached from his body so that he was watching himself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Again Scathach hushed the man , raising a beaker to his lips so that he could sip cool water . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For two or three days after each beating , I was called to his study so that he could see I was healing properly . |
| 15 | On account of this , very many cases from all over the world began to be brought to his audience so that he concluded several major cases in his time which were started long before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He turned slightly towards her , resting his weight on his elbow so that he could see her face , watch her lips as she spoke . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 19 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 20 | To get out he has to supply information about his identity so that he can be put into the right bureaucratic pigeon-hole . |
| 21 | Well , oh yes , but that 's , that 's for his phone so that he does n't need a he does n't need hands so he can hold the steering wheel when he answers the phone . |
| 22 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 23 | He took the precaution , however , of carrying a typewriter and books among his luggage so that he could prepare for an address at the University of Leeds which he was to give in the following year . |
| 24 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 25 | ‘ He described quite graphically — to me personally — how he felt with it seeping through the blindfold and beginning to sting and then burn at his eyes so that he was finally forced to open them in order to blink . |