Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] so [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) want more money for Derbyshire so that it can employ more people such as his brother , who is employed as a personnel liaison officer for Toyota , his sister-in-law , who is employed in the county publicity department — — and such as another sister-in-law , who is employed in the education department ? |
| 2 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 3 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 4 | But he could hardly wait to get rid of Antony so that he could test it . |
| 5 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 6 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 7 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 8 | The concordance between Is for some attribute ( e.g. IQ ) may be higher than that between Ns so that we can infer a genetic effect . |
| 9 | to meet with Jim so that we can a a the objective of which will be for Jim to tell us what the content of his course is , so we can assess where whether there are gaps in our training . |
| 10 | ‘ we direct to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continued involvement with L. so that he can investigate the rehabilitation process so that the child could apply to have contact terminated if appropriate . |
| 11 | They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover . |
| 12 | Some firms of solicitors have offices in Brussels so that they can provide a good quality of service to their clients whose interests are governed directly by Community law . |
| 13 | He desperately tried to pull strings with people he knew in Parma so that he would not be called up , but eventually he had to go . |
| 14 | She wanted to say that she would quite happily go and dine on her own in Florence so that they could be alone together , but Mrs Wallington pre-empted her . |
| 15 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 16 | So I said that instead of our leaving tomorrow or Sunday it might be best to wait until Monday so that I can see the bank manager at Gullshaven ; I want to make sure that Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre are paid regularly . |
| 17 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 18 | It was beautiful how they 'd laid it down that the baby should be brought up in Dynmouth so that they could always see it about the place . |
| 19 | Bursting into tears , she turned and ran back through the wood , pushing blindly through the ferns , stumbling , hot and panting , determined to get away from Nicky so that she could try to think straight . |
| 20 | The OSS forerunner of the CIA — held joint meetings with M16 to hammer out a viable response , and Roosevelt was advised to cook up some scheme with his ‘ Former Naval Person ’ friend across the water suggesting that Hitler 's real hope was to bring about a peace in Europe so that he could attack and destroy the US and her interests . |
| 21 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 22 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 23 | At the time of going to press , the ITF confirmed that it was awaiting papers from Slovenia so that it could process its application to become an associate member . |
| 24 | I must take it off at once and give it to Donna so that she can rinse it … ’ |
| 25 | In order to drive home the point that the messianic Spirit , the Spirit of the days of salvation , was really available to all believers , the Spirit had first of all to inspire Peter with his vision of the unclean animals in the sheet which were intended for him to eat , and then to apply that vision to a Gentile officer whose men were at that very moment waiting in the courtyard for Peter to accompany them to Cornelius so that he might receive the good news of Jesus . |
| 26 | And when he gets a break from the circuit just before Christmas , he 'll be taking wife Anne and baby George to Florida so that he can train in the sun . |
| 27 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 28 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 29 | Once they had spent an enjoyable week in Bath and on another occasion he had suggested going to Cornwall so that she could show him the house where she was brought up . |
| 30 | If anyone rings and asks for her , we 're to say she 's out , then pass the message on to Bob so that she can ring back . ’ |