Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] so [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , clearly the revival thing has moved up so that we 're about to have Eighties revivals very soon .
2 Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles .
3 It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them .
4 The number of grants awarded increased rapidly so that by 1977 the number stood at 27,500 .
5 By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six .
6 By this time the wagonettes had caught up so that the rest of the day proceeded according to plan .
7 All the happenings of the night had mixed together so that he no longer knew whether he had really been woken and heard the Woman 's hushed , hissing voice and the faint News from the radio .
8 So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is
9 The stem of the rose that he had decorated the table with had bent over so that the pink flower seemed to be praying , bowing , deferring .
10 Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression .
11 In the last year interest rates have fallen steadily so that they are now at their lowest level for nearly 25 years .
12 Nor should they be put off by roads which have signposts that are positively misleading , or which some naughty boys have turned round so that they point in totally the wrong direction .
13 supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait .
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