Example sentences of "so [pron] could [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 2 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 3 | He could not guarantee he would be able to deliver it on the day and she billed it as a surprise film so she could show a reserve if it failed to arrive . |
| 4 | They would still be driving home , so she could leave a message on the answering machine . |
| 5 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 6 | The RSC has three spare 5.25-inch drive bays , so you could fit a tape streamer or CD ROM , for example . |
| 7 | You , we 're doing fractions if you like so you could draw a half and that would be a half of three hundred and sixty . |
| 8 | If so you could become a POB on a RAG . |
| 9 | You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning . |
| 10 | Players can be put in any position , so you could have a striker playing in goal ! |
| 11 | Otherwise , you could use a pronoun as a joining word , so you could use a pronoun and use which . |
| 12 | Along with scores so far , so you could get a bit of an advantage . |
| 13 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 14 | we wanted to get people chemical , wanted to get a thing through , so they could make a profit from it . |
| 15 | Uncle Edgar even dammed a little pool so they could have a dip with their picnics . |
| 16 | And I used to go down you used to see all the mams and kids going down the moors here , taking their dad 's tea , down in the fields , so they could have a bit of something and then finish as got dark . |
| 17 | ‘ But Urban the Eighth took the bronze from the inside of the dome and gave it to Bernini so he could create a baldacchino — a canopy — for the papal altar in Saint Peter 's . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |
| 19 | ‘ I think Billy might just have been desperate enough to smash that chair over somebody 's head so he could make a run for it . ’ |
| 20 | Auckland District Court heard that the 20-year-old man ‘ was merely trying to attract their attention , so he could start a conversation ’ and that such behaviour was perfectly normal on his archipelago . |
| 21 | This program was written by Raphael Salgado , who is himself a first-degree black belt , so he could use a Karate program that he enjoyed and was realistic . |
| 22 | His mother encouraged him to study harder and harder so he could become a doctor , one of the most financially rewarding occupations in Japan . |