Example sentences of "she [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
2 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |
3 | Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her . |
4 | She sighed so heavily that her whole ribcage moved . |
5 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
6 | They begged Franca to come too , and she declined so tactfully that they could all , without awkwardness , smile over the plan and even discuss it . |
7 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she breathed so softly that she wondered if he had heard . |
8 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
9 | ‘ And now she adores another — that 's life ! ’ she clipped so tightly that it was quite plain she was hurt . |
10 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |
11 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
12 | The family moved to the middle of the country , a contrast to the northern industrial cities she knew so well and ‘ definitely warmer ’ than the West of Sheffield . |
13 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
14 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |
15 | But the reason she fell so easily and so heavily would seem to be that she was light-headed from a mixture of drink and pills . |
16 | ‘ No , ’ said Dierdriu , but now she spoke so softly that Fergus had to move closer to hear her . |
17 | But when at last she spoke , she did so simply and directly , for although the moment was solemn , and although it was probably historic as well , these were not creatures who would react favourably to grandiloquence . |
18 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
19 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
20 | She wished so desperately that she was coming home with good news . |
21 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
22 | He was being very much the doctor , Sally-Anne noted , even through her distress , which was growing less by the minute as she regained the self-control which she had so suddenly and disastrously lost . |
23 | She wanted Andrew and she said so plainly and without pretence . |
24 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
25 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
26 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
27 | Why , oh , why had he let her go so easily and why , oh , why was he doing this to her now ? |
28 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
29 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |
30 | His hold about her tightened so suddenly that she winced and cried out . |