Example sentences of "so [adj] that she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 2 | The darkness was so total that she wondered if they would even be able to proceed without the aid of a torch . |
| 3 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 4 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 5 | Her maternal instincts would be so strong that she would be unable to resist their calls for help and would soon approach them , pick them up individually in her mouth and place them in her bed . |
| 6 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 7 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |
| 8 | The impulse was so strong that she could hardly believe that he did not feel it too . |
| 9 | Her conviction that the Virgin was calling her was so strong that she felt able to defy the priest . |
| 10 | Claudia was drowning in a sea of sensations so strong that she wanted to rip away the clothes that kept them apart . |
| 11 | It was so strong that she put a hand to her head and swayed . |
| 12 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 13 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 14 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 15 | They clung together , her body offering no resistance as his mouth became more ruthless , more demanding , creating a desire in her so strong that she moaned softly . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , God … ! ’ she choked out thickly , pushing at his shoulders , but he was so strong that she was helpless against that strength , her heart pounding as she felt his hard thighs press closer against her to trap her there . |
| 17 | Before considering making an application to the local council for a rent or rate rebate , an elderly person who is hard pressed financially should consider first whether her income is so low that she might do better to make an application for a supplementary pension , which brings with it other benefits ( previously described ) . |
| 18 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 19 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 20 | Luke 's voice was so low that she had to strain to hear it above the noisy chatter of the birds , the rustle of the breeze in the trees . |
| 21 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 22 | ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids . |
| 23 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 24 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 25 | Garry 's wife suspected there was another woman and she was so upset that she turned to her brother for help . ’ |
| 26 | Her mum Pat , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky has been so upset that she has had two epileptic fits since Penny disappeared . |
| 27 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 28 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 29 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 30 | Her friend Sarah , although the same age , was so shy that she appeared much younger . |