Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] so that [art] " in BNC.

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1 Apples should be picked carefully and graded so that the smallest and largest are used first , and medium-sized fruit is saved for storage .
2 He nodded avidly in affirmation of his train of thought and turned so that the light fell directly on the front of his body .
3 Seeded and loined so that the world might grow .
4 But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet .
5 For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay .
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