Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he changed them so that you get , so they 're having one course in and |
| 2 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 3 | As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out . |
| 4 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 5 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 6 | Its beauty awed her so that her thanks were quiet and almost reverent . |
| 7 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 8 | It does help and he twisted it so that you can put your ornaments there and there you see |
| 9 | He banged it so that it would bend . |
| 10 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 11 | Mother Hilary , a legal secretary , and her golf playing husband Mike , who works at Stormont , encouraged her so that now , she admits , ‘ I do n't really have any hobbies . |
| 12 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 13 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 14 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 15 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 16 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 17 | And then the the men cut the like that and then the women s they lifted the , and the next lad he stuck them so that it was a very busy time . |
| 18 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 19 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 20 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 21 | Bruce Dern said Corman did him and Nicholson a favour by getting them a part because they both needed the money at the time ; Corman arranged it so that their shooting schedules would require them to be available for the first and last weeks of the four-week stint , thus , under union rules guaranteeing them a salary cheque for the full four weeks . |
| 22 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 23 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 24 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 25 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |
| 26 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 27 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 28 | He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace . |
| 29 | Her face flooded with radiance as she saw him so that the impression of fragility was gone . |
| 30 | He pulled a wooden chair away from the table and brought it so that he could sit opposite to her . |