Example sentences of "so [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed .
2 They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary .
3 The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish .
4 It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block .
5 The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design .
6 The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design .
7 Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared .
8 He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt .
9 There was a concerted gasp of shock around the table , and Benedict himself stiffened , his frown deepening so that it cut heavy lines across his forehead and between his brows , marring his looks .
10 The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men .
11 Mrs Stych was unloading savoury rolls and a bowl of chicken salad from the refrigerator and she kicked the door savagely , so that it slammed shut with a protesting boom .
12 At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s .
13 The small grass lawn at the front was overgrown , the wooden verandah running from the porch along the front of the house had several posts missing , and the catch on the outer porch door was broken , so that it swung open and shut with a groan and a bang in the ever freshening wind .
14 And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat .
15 She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso .
16 It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next .
17 Sony Corporation 's Tape Recorder Division tried to redesign a small portable tape recorder so that it gave stereophonic sound .
18 If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard .
19 They were both still and quiet , looking at a toad in the rough grass on the bank ; its body was swollen , its legs stiff and straight so that it stood high on its toes , looking like a little table .
20 I wound it around my head so that it covered all but my eyes .
21 The room was very dim , he saw that she had suspended a shawl over the light , so that it shone dappled on walls and ceiling above .
22 And they set off , Dr Neil behind her , holding the candle high , so that it threw strange shadows on the walls and ceilings .
23 So if it took six months to start each scheme up
24 Mr Sproat pointed out that currently BR was under no compulsion to make concessions but did so because it made obvious economic sense .
25 So because it worked last time I used it .
26 Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know
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