Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 2 | And you work all of those out so that you just play with them just get to know them so that you 're happy with them . |
| 3 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was a complete recluse , but one of us somehow got to know her so that he could come and count the nests in the heronry and explore the island . |
| 6 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 7 | Once you know your daily calorie intake it is easy to adjust it so that you gain or lose weight . |
| 8 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 9 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 10 | For model conversations which are based on questions and answers , it is relatively easy to design them so that each conversation , introduces a different question word and preposition or case ending , together with a new tense , aspect , mood or word class . |
| 11 | Has remarkable habit of dropping bones from a height on to a hard surface to split them so that it can eat the marrow . |
| 12 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 13 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 14 | I came in yesterday cos I had to decorate it so that er get it tiled , and get it furnished and |
| 15 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 18 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 19 | Instead of privatizing the health service , I wanted to modernize it so that it could better tackle the problems of the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 20 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
| 21 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 22 | No the the very name , as the name implies , in many cases we would er jettison the drop tanks before entering combat and er therefore there is an agreed rate at which we would expect to use them so that they are a a usable stock in operations . |
| 23 | I went with the boss to do it so that we could follow up the practice of the theory you see . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Simon could n't afford to let himself be divorced ; Constanza did some extremely quixotic things and they managed to fix it so that she appeared to be the guilty party . |
| 26 | Some may contain adulterants to enhance the aroma or to extend it so that it goes further ; others may contain pesticide residues or traces of chemical solvent from the extraction process . |
| 27 | The prisoners , under strict supervision , were allowed to level it so that they could play football or a strange game called rugby , or go running , or simply sit in the sun . |
| 28 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 29 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 30 | Araminta had been driven to the celebrations in the gig by Adam Diggory , scorning Benedict 's escort , and Mrs Diggory had been permitted to accompany them so that she might visit her mother , who lived on the Switham estates . |