Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You said you wanted to meet my fiancée so that you could judge her for yourself . |
| 2 | They shackled my legs so that I could not run . |
| 3 | Then he deliberately looked back to meet her eyes so that she would know that he had made a decision With a slight lift of his shoulders , he accepted his decision . |
| 4 | Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists . |
| 5 | My advice is to locate it when it is bright , and then memorize its position so that you can find it again when it has faded . |
| 6 | He wants Christ to be brought clearly into the picture of working matters , not for Christians in the working world to secularise their task so that Christ is absent from their thinking . |
| 7 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 8 | She experimented , twisting her body so as to unwind the air line . |
| 9 | Erm , your Mum wants her pears so if you put them in the fridge they 'll be alright she said they were she picked out nice hard ones . |
| 10 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 11 | Lady Errol intervened through her brother-in-law , informing Johnson , in the hyperbole of hospitality , that she would never allow him to enter Slains again if he left now , and , with the daylight of the long summer evening available , she provided her coachman so that the travellers could view a couple of local geological curiosities , the Buller of Buchan and the rock of Dunbui . |
| 12 | She achieves birth , instead , by bracing her body against the ground with her forelegs and then inflating her lungs so that they swell into her abdomen and squeeze the young out by pneumatic pressure . |
| 13 | ‘ Many seem to increase their speed so that by the time they take the left hand fork to Cuckoo 's Corner pick your own farm , they are often doing speeds over 50mph . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , ’ she muttered , averting her face so that he would not see the heated flush that stained her cheeks . |
| 15 | Two decades later , after the clearer recognition of the distinction between insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus , Neel modified his hypothesis so that it related specifically to non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 16 | Placing the egg in the palm of his right hand , Vic let it roll up his forearm and then jerked his elbow so that it was propelled into the air . |
| 17 | A number of Gnostic themes also entered his theology so that his reputation suffered . |
| 18 | Bob had dropped his voice so that Raksha in the next room would n't hear . |
| 19 | Len moved his eyes so that he was staring at Jimmy . |
| 20 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 21 | And he bent his head so that his mouth was hidden in the folds of my skirt , and said so softly that I could hardly hear it , but I felt it more than heard it , through the red material , murmured against my leg : " I love you . " |
| 22 | ‘ G-R-R-R-R-OWF ! ’ he rumbled , hunching his back so that his fur stood straight up . |
| 23 | As he spoke , he changed his position so that he was standing on a ledge with his shoulders and forearms resting on a parapet . |
| 24 | The manager was advised to start by walking his zone so as to familiarize himself with it , and then ‘ scouts ’ would be sent out to call at homes whilst ‘ reliable boys ’ could be hired to ‘ politely deliver heralds ’ . |
| 25 | He says horror films and books often portray snakes as monsters ; now he wants people to get to know his reptiles so that they stop fearing them . |
| 26 | As an example of unreliable sensory feeling try closing your eyes and , using your senses and feelings only place your feet so that they are twelve inches apart , parallel with each other . |
| 27 | It will also help to concentrate your mind so that you do actually keep the statements reasonably brief . |
| 28 | Practise applying your make-up so that it looks as though you 're not wearing any at all — it 's a real art , but it can be done ! |
| 29 | ’ Mr Sargent had said something then and she lowered her voice so that Emmie could n't hear her any more . |
| 30 | But some last-minute impulse lowered her aim so that the blow caught him , hard but not painfully , on his chest . |