Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both frightened of her , Camille noted with bitter delight : afraid she 'd upset one of them so that the other would have to intervene before the family dinner broke up with a crash of plates and a splash of blazing gravy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 4 | But these are filtered through social structures and affected by them so that the place of women in particular societies bears directly on their well-being in old age . |
| 5 | This would offer great possibilities for travel in space and time , but unfortunately it seems that these solutions may all be highly unstable ; the least disturbance , such as the presence of an astronaut , may change them so that the astronaut could not see the singularity until he hit it and and his time came to an end . |
| 6 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ Artemis told the woman , moving slightly away from her so that the finger could no longer reach her chin . |
| 8 | Slowly he pressured her backwards , tipping her on to the cushioning softness of the bed , moving over her so that the imprint of his body burned on her like a brand . |
| 9 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 10 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 11 | The trustees have the power to advance funds to him so that the settlement is caught by , for instance , TA 1988 , s674 . |
| 12 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 13 | Her face flooded with radiance as she saw him so that the impression of fragility was gone . |
| 14 | He moved closer , reaching out to turn her face towards him so that the light glittered on the tell-tale mist on her cheeks . |
| 15 | Starting with the gravel , landscape it so that the back of the tank 's floor is higher than the front , which tends to make the tank look bigger . |
| 16 | In applying this average increase of 23% the insurers have structured it so that the increase will mainly apply to those categories of policyholders which have the greatest incidence of claims . |
| 17 | When a layer of purée approximately ½ inch thick has frozen , remove the mixture from the freezer and stir it so that the mixture is a soft crystallized consistency . |
| 18 | This is done by inserting a special plastic tube into a limb artery , threading it to the heart and then into an affected coronary artery , manoeuvring it so that the tip is just past the narrowed section . |
| 19 | The solution is to take the stake a foot ( 0.3m ) or more higher and to loop branches to it so that the head can not be turned over . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He grabbed at the barrel and fell with it so that the power of the big man was added to his own strength . |
| 22 | D'Arcy contemplated the glass in his hand , turning it so that the light caught the cut crystal edges . |
| 23 | Once the ink is expelled , the heat is turned off , the ink bubble contracts and a vacuum is formed in the nozzle , pulling fresh ink back into it so that the process can begin again . |
| 24 | They argued : ‘ whoever is responsible for spending money should also be responsible for raising it so that the amount of expenditure is subject to democratic control ’ ( Layfield 1 976:283 ) . |
| 25 | The accented B♭s that occur as pick-up notes for each phrase in bars 2–5 should be played by hooking your r/h thumb under the G string and releasing it so that the string slaps against the fingerboard . |
| 26 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 27 | Still more is it so when the case is not on all fours with the problem . |
| 28 | I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room ; Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear . |