Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb past] so [that] " in BNC.

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1 And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage , gushed blood .
2 In the preceding examples , gender differences are not being seen as situational and interactional , rather , overgeneralization has been learned and internalized so that such differences are perceived as global and structural .
3 They rattled and clanked so that Charles had to shout to his Sergeant that he could n't hear a word the man was saying .
4 Braid is similar , except that the threads are interwoven or plaited so that they are unable to unwind or separate .
5 It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate .
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