Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [conj] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece . |
| 2 | Erm , I 've endorsed the comments that 've been made I think the er congratulations , and can I say I 've got a sneaking feeling originally , this paper was put on the agenda to embarrass me so that the records department can get the new shelves I originally blocked . |
| 3 | Yet the bowlers defended well , and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense . |
| 4 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 5 | But these are filtered through social structures and affected by them so that the place of women in particular societies bears directly on their well-being in old age . |
| 6 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 7 | Muscles developed around them so that the front ends of the rods could be moved up and down . |
| 8 | If they come across pebbles too big to lift , they dig away beneath them so that the pebbles slowly sink , millimetre by millimetre . |
| 9 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 10 | They were both frightened of her , Camille noted with bitter delight : afraid she 'd upset one of them so that the other would have to intervene before the family dinner broke up with a crash of plates and a splash of blazing gravy . |
| 11 | I traded with them so that the young girls of the country would no longer shrink from me in revulsion , ’ he said , and there was a lick of sensuality in the hissing voice now . |
| 12 | In the Soviet Union the party and government bureaucracies issued a mass of rules and regulations — so many , in fact , that sometimes ways had to be found to circumvent them so that the system would not grind to a halt . |
| 13 | This would offer great possibilities for travel in space and time , but unfortunately it seems that these solutions may all be highly unstable ; the least disturbance , such as the presence of an astronaut , may change them so that the astronaut could not see the singularity until he hit it and and his time came to an end . |
| 14 | Draw pencil lines along the ceiling 67 mm ( for 100 mm girth cove ) or 83 mm ( for 127 mm girth cove ) from the walls and parallel to them so that the lines intersect . |
| 15 | Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been . |
| 16 | Move it further towards you so that the threads stick to the wire and break away from the support . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ Artemis told the woman , moving slightly away from her so that the finger could no longer reach her chin . |
| 18 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 19 | Slowly he pressured her backwards , tipping her on to the cushioning softness of the bed , moving over her so that the imprint of his body burned on her like a brand . |
| 20 | She saw other sides of him then , the skilled physician , the considerate colleague , and yet another side , the one gentle with their frightened little patient , reassuring and comforting her so that the procedures became less terrifying and more easily coped with . |
| 21 | He left his cocoon of warmth , closing the folds behind him so that the damp chill of the room would not invade his secret place during his absence . |
| 22 | Her face flooded with radiance as she saw him so that the impression of fragility was gone . |
| 23 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 24 | Simple arithmetic will show that if you wish the examiner to appreciate your answer you must present it to him so that the minimum time is required for reading , assessing and marking . |
| 25 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 26 | The trustees have the power to advance funds to him so that the settlement is caught by , for instance , TA 1988 , s674 . |
| 27 | He moved closer , reaching out to turn her face towards him so that the light glittered on the tell-tale mist on her cheeks . |
| 28 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 29 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 30 | He grabbed at the barrel and fell with it so that the power of the big man was added to his own strength . |