Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 2 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 3 | The analogy is that you are a robot walking up a hill , and your designer has built you so that you can only step north , south , east or west . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | God has made us so that our affections are very much the spring of all our actions . |
| 6 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 7 | Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 11 | Let us try to recognise our faults and seek to overcome them so that we can learn to feel self-respect . |
| 12 | If there are relatives and friends , arrangements will often be made to suit them so that they can attend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 15 | I was going to tell you so that day Faye came home from hospital — Boxing Day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 19 | They all turned out to watch him go , Pen clamouring to accompany him so that he might be the first to embrace and welcome Lily 's baby . |
| 20 | I think perhaps if you could have arranged her so that er this foot somehow was resting down here , well it might have been better . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Indonesians wanted to start within a month , but Douglas-Hamilton and Child urged them to consider delaying it so that the army could do a pilot run and the local people could be better informed about what to expect . |
| 23 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 24 | But if you bothered to ask , anyone in the Anti-Nazi League could have told you so before you got that 50p stuck in your face . |
| 25 | I 've got the Graham wanted to well unfortunately Graham this one 's a bit dangerous so I 'm having to do it so if anything goes wrong it 's me that gets it and not you . |
| 26 | but , but he said he paid the way she must have worked it so that he |
| 27 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 28 | Kate sat quite still , trying hard not to let the panic that she felt overwhelm her so that she ran screaming out into the still hot afternoon . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ? |