Example sentences of "[adv] so [that] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
| 2 | She spent hours in the stockroom , trying everything on so that she could describe each dress to Louise . |
| 3 | He finds time to talk to her and tell her what 's going on so that she 's never at a loss to deal with any situation . |
| 4 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 5 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 6 | Sheila admits that food additives are a great worry — so much so that she is investigating the possibility of growing her own exotic vegetables in a hothouse . |
| 7 | So much so that she was not left alone with him , but that afternoon the mother had had to go shopping and the child had returned from a swimming session in the baths and had been alone with the man . |
| 8 | She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then … |
| 9 | At school , compensating , she had worked and worked and worked , so much so that she had finally made the two A's and a B necessary for medicine in her A levels . |
| 10 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 11 | Mrs J. was a dominant person , so much so that she ended up in hospital suffering from malnutrition , as she had refused to eat . |
| 12 | So much so that she remembers trying to wriggle her face away from it without success . |
| 13 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 14 | Whereas the DCSL for School F limited her actions to the latter function , her colleague in School A ( and the other schools in her division ) played a much more active role with , and sometimes in , the library committee itself , so much so that she was occasionally described by teachers as the " leading light " in the formulation of the proposal . |
| 15 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 16 | ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play ! |
| 17 | Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting . |
| 18 | The extreme cruelty of his words threw her totally off balance , so much so that she lost all colour , as , half dizzy , she turned away to hide her shock . |
| 19 | She was very relieved , so much so that she felt weak . |
| 20 | So much so that she decided to call the police and give them my registration number , just in case I made a habit of kerb-crawling . |
| 21 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 22 | So much so that she was able to quieten any last lingering niggles about how easily she 'd folded by telling herself that tomorrow she would , most definitely , go out on her own . |
| 23 | And as they come , as Naomi comes back to the place where she went astray so God starts to bless , so much so that she does n't know whether she 's standing or sitting ! |
| 24 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 25 | Although the heroine of George Eliot 's Felix Holt renounces her inheritance , it is only so that she can marry the man she loves . |
| 26 | In a very short space of time , she had demolished two more such beef sandwiches supplied by Mr Beckenham , with the addition of a large slice of pie , the whole washed down with gulps of water in between , only so that she might clear her mouth for more food . |
| 27 | They took her in their arms and lifted her gently so that she could feel their support along the length of her body . |
| 28 | Laughing , he loosened his hold enough so that she could pull her arms free . |
| 29 | Presently she could see him again ; his head was erect , but his eyes were cast down so that she could only see the dark . |
| 30 | She hoped the clock would break down so that she would not have to see the bird again ; she did not like it . |