Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 2 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 3 | Of course , like the sentences about the knight , the dragon , and the pineapple , they might form part of a discourse , and if we stretch our imaginations we could come up with a situation in which they do ; but this will not be by virtue of the words so and she , but because of some other information about the context . |
| 4 | She then raises her hind legs so that she is crouching with her nose down and her back tilted . |
| 5 | The beginning , a long time ago , was quite clear : sitting up in bed at home , swinging her feet round to the floor , standing up — and a warm flood spilling down her legs so that she cried out in fright . |
| 6 | A few steps so that she can come back up them to the balcony . |
| 7 | Competence in teaching means having sufficient insight into the teacher 's own weaknesses , strengths and preferences to enable her to adapt her methods so that she is comfortable in using them . |
| 8 | Then he deliberately looked back to meet her eyes so that she would know that he had made a decision With a slight lift of his shoulders , he accepted his decision . |
| 9 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 10 | He kissed her , closing his eyes so that she could not see herself any more . |
| 11 | Lyn took one of the gravel paths into the grounds of the general hospital , walking towards the sun that dazzled her eyes so that she screwed them up against it . |
| 12 | She moved across to the window , cupping one hand over her eyes so that she could see out , but there was little to see . |
| 13 | She closed her eyes so that she would n't have to look at him . |
| 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 | She swayed to and fro ; she almost slipped down onto the ground beside the dead queen in the mud but Finn kept hold of her no matter how hard she struck at him , lightly clasping her shoulders so that she would not fall . |
| 16 | We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school . |
| 17 | During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in . |
| 18 | She was ashamed of her sharpness , but the heat seemed to penetrate her brain , taking over her senses so that she was no longer in control . |
| 19 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 20 | A woman who is generally satisfied will organize her days so that she is not overcome by the many demands on her time . |
| 21 | ‘ Eh ? ’ said Bella , surprised out of her personal nightmare : the one where she sat , in a big room , unable to move , imprisoned in her crippled body , surrounded by a sea of senile faces , while a pitying young woman stuck a baby 's cup between her toothless gums so that she could suck lukewarm tea out of it . |
| 22 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 23 | Anne still met John Redmond occasionally , and tried to keep up with world affairs so that she could hold her own when talking to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |
| 25 | He had forced his way into her life , arranged things so that she 'd had no choice but to do his bidding — and as soon as she 'd done something to make it clear that she was still her own person and not his , he 'd humiliated her . |
| 26 | She kept her head under the blankets so that she would not see the magic light . |
| 27 | Shadows carved the flesh from his features so that she could see the fine lines of his skull , the hard mystery of essential bone . |
| 28 | She intended to stay there , and was willing to retrench in other ways so that she could continue to live in Thrush Green among her friends , and also have room to entertain more distant friends who would be invited to stay . |
| 29 | Perhaps her nearsense completed for her — in her mind 's eye — those abbreviated gestures so that she perceived the weaving of a skein of death . |
| 30 | There was something cold-blooded about using his father 's death to make a poem ; she had changed the names so that she could attempt to get it published , and it was going to be . |