Example sentences of "[noun] so [conj] i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 2 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |
| 3 | So that basically is it how would we see the course 's structure I do n't think we 've got time to do that today I wanted really to just to throw some ideas with you good folks and get the benefit of your thoughts and experience so that I could go back to Napier and say this is what my committee says |
| 4 | It needs a very large orchestra and I needed a lot of rehearsals so that I could have time to explain the piece fully to the orchestra . |
| 5 | I catapulted the tiny beasts across the creek and into the mud on the far side so that I could have funerals . |
| 6 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |
| 7 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |
| 8 | I suggested that it might be a good idea to get it in midsummer so that I could get plenty of practice in before the skiddy weather set in , but he thought there might be too much tourist traffic going through the town and on the roads around it in the middle of the summer . |
| 9 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 10 | However , I felt we still needed more trials so that I could prove without doubt that my inch loss theory worked . |
| 11 | A year later , I received a letter inviting me to lunch so that I could come and see his garden . |
| 12 | Enough work so that I could enjoy it but not so much work that I would be fed up . |
| 13 | I pulled a corner of the curtain away from the window so that I could see out . |
| 14 | It was great to be working in one place for a few nights on the trot so that I could afford to go to that amount of trouble . ’ |
| 15 | How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion ? |
| 16 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
| 17 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |
| 18 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 19 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 20 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 21 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 22 | Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up . |
| 23 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 24 | I wolfed the lot and crawled upstairs to bed , requesting an early call so that I could catch the 8.30 bus from Lochinver , still nearly three miles further on , to Lairg . |
| 25 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 26 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 27 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 28 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 29 | He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning . |
| 30 | I dropped my handkerchief so that I could get a closer look . |