Example sentences of "[adv] so they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 2 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 3 | J.B. You know it 's positive discrimination in that and boys will not be allowed in so they can have , you know , an enjoyable night , being girls but not with boys there to say , ‘ oh , yea , you 've got nice legs ’ and all this , so that salves my conscience a bit and I was n't very worried about it , but I wo n't have beauty demonstrations and things in the club 'cause I 'm not going to reinforce the image that boys already have of the girls . |
| 4 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 5 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 6 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 7 | Right so they may think that , you know , they 're gon na be one of the lucky ones , presumably . |
| 8 | The historical circumstances of a text were important so that localised issues could be clarified and explained — effectively so they could be explained away . |
| 9 | So once a person becomes unconscious , remember they 've got to go to hospital because they can only get worse , right , there is n't any , enough sugar in that body to , to be able to work properly so they 'll only get worse . |
| 10 | Certificates were presented to each member of staff and a crate of wine was cracked open so they could celebrate . |
| 11 | It was not only the houses and buildings that were affected , there were also many cars and vans that had to stop their journeys and wait hoping the water start to drain away so they would be able to reach their destination . |
| 12 | If you present the letters very rapidly , just so they could only just be detected , erm you 'd find that sometimes X and Y would be confused , whereas X and P were very rarely confused . |
| 13 | If she resembles any recent First Lady at all , it must be Rosalyn Carter who liked to attend the odd cabinet meeting and who had an official lunch with Jimmy Carter each week , just so they could discuss political matters . |
| 14 | These jokes are liable to turn all your friends into a bunch of werewolves , vampires , swamp monsters and slime creatures just so they can get their own back on you . |
| 15 | Anywhere , just so they can get a good look in . |
| 16 | Just so they can have a day off or something . |
| 17 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 18 | But they can just look through so they can say I ca n't think of an accent let's have a quick look through this list . |
| 19 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
| 20 | They wanted him home so they could feel safe . |
| 21 | They want me home so they can feel safe . |
| 22 | Now she wants him home so they can talk about their ‘ big wedding ’ . |
| 23 | Mind you it was that early so they might not have had everything sort of on the go and stuff . |
| 24 | James had asked him to come early so they could do some work on the autobiography before dinner . |
| 25 | Although the second- and third-years do n't officially come back until next week , Puddephat 's tutees have been called back early so they can be allocated to new people quickly . |
| 26 | People buy holly early so they can make wreaths . |
| 27 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 28 | Give them a year off so they can recoup ’ . |
| 29 | You know , women with only one tit , they cut the other off so they could shoot better with a bow and arrow , they live together , all women and no men , this woman 's written a play about them — ’ |
| 30 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |