Example sentences of "so he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 2 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 3 | Shooting a fierce look of hatred at Damian Flint beside her , striding along , his face hard , she saw a ruthless swine whose main objective was to get Rachel to be his wife so he could fulfil his ambitions and take Swift for his own . |
| 4 | Taylor even considered not selecting him for Sweden so he could blood the likes of Alan Shearer and Ian Wright . |
| 5 | Candles in iron candelabra shed some light but Wishart preferred the darkness , even the cold , so he could think clearly , logically , plan and plot . |
| 6 | Geoff Link had a firm grasp of classroom techniques and a deep knowledge of children , so he could cope with a small part of his week in exploration of a subject matter with which he had only a tenuous acquaintance . |
| 7 | Then he 'd take it to someone who could cut er a key er so he could open the up the granary the late in in the middle of the night , when everybody were asleep , and steal oats for the horses . |
| 8 | Mrs Winterton invited Mr Major to view the exhibition privately so he could reach his own informed conclusion about what action needed to be taken to clean up ‘ this free market in filth ’ . |
| 9 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 10 | He retired early in 1981 so he could nurse his wife Ruby , who was partially paralyzed with polio . |
| 11 | The churches split in 1534 after the Pope refused to annul the king 's first marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne . |
| 12 | In 1936 a king gave up his throne so he could marry the woman he loved . |
| 13 | Surely Henry VIII just wanted to get rid of her , did n't he , so he could marry someone else ? ’ |
| 14 | Was he just waiting for her to return so he could choose one or the other of them ? |
| 15 | ‘ But Urban the Eighth took the bronze from the inside of the dome and gave it to Bernini so he could create a baldacchino — a canopy — for the papal altar in Saint Peter 's . ’ |
| 16 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 17 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 18 | He grazed her temple with warm lips , then raised his head so he could study her . |
| 19 | ‘ He taught himself Latin and Greek so he could study botany , and he published a book , The British Flora , in 1777 . |
| 20 | With that she marched off , and after we 'd got our breath , I made the usual cup of tea while Frankie went to fetch nails and hammer from Dad 's tool box so he could fix the door before Mum returned and explanations were necessary . |
| 21 | Guy had heard that Miles had finally reached Gloucester on foot and practically dead from exhaustion , his weapons and armour long since abandoned so he could travel faster . |
| 22 | No doubt he wanted his task over with , so he could return to his companions and his ale-cup in the soldiers ' quarters . |
| 23 | ‘ He wanted to get the matters cleared up once and for all so he could return to this country in future with a clear conscience , ’ said Mr Spain . |
| 24 | Maybe he got ten thousand from one place so he could pay off someone else . |
| 25 | In New Scotland Yard John McLeish was trying , increasingly irritably , to clear his desk so he could go home . |
| 26 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 27 | She tried to remind him who Berg was but he cut across her saying he wanted her key so he could go and move his belongings out . |
| 28 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 29 | He 's got a daughter from a previous relationship and he used to have her at weekends and he used to leave her all the time so he could go and play football and go out drinking . |
| 30 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |