Example sentences of "so [pron] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 2 | I shouted , desperately trying to turn my horse 's head so I could flee like the wind . |
| 3 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 4 | At the A227 turn-off I switched off the cassette-player so I could concentrate on the terrain . |
| 5 | I checked my watch and stood up so I could look across the Paddock . |
| 6 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 7 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 8 | Although it may be too late to gather any more that season , you would at least have a permanent record so you could return in the following year to collect some more . |
| 9 | You asked me to send a reminder so you could arrange for the stone cross to be cleaned before Remembrance Sunday in November . |
| 10 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 11 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 12 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 13 | Club officials disclosed that Mr Souness had kept news of the operation secret from the players so they could concentrate on the match against Portsmouth . |
| 14 | For years afterwards , Jay 's heart gave a lurch every time she passed the place where they parked — Astrid drove the three hundred yards from her house so they could kiss in the car before she went to Timisia . |
| 15 | They tied the car so they could get in the vice . |
| 16 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |
| 17 | The proctologist stretched his sunburned legs on the cockpit cushions and rested his head so he could stare past the bimini cover at the stars . |
| 18 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 19 | I 'd built a cat flap in the flat door so he could get into the rest of the house and one more in the back door so that he could get out into the square yard of concrete which our landlord Nassim called our patio . |
| 20 | He took deep breaths , trying to calm his mind and soul so he could concentrate on the recent events in the Tower . |
| 21 | He planned to get me out of the way so he could bid for the portmanteau . |
| 22 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 23 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 24 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |