Example sentences of "[noun sg] so they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 2 | A SOCIAL worker urged a boy of 14 to steal a car so they could carry on an affair , a court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | They tied the car so they could get in the vice . |
| 4 | After these meetings , every employee was interviewed by a member of the team dealing with the relocation so they could raise any questions that they had . |
| 5 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 6 | We grew up viewing them with contempt , and saw them as preoccupied with money so they could ‘ better themselves ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Wakerley said : ‘ Are we to believe there is another kidnapper , the kidnapper of Julie Dart , the killer of Julie Dart , who by the purest coincidence used the bridges across the Dove Valley Trail to collect ransom money three miles apart , who stencilled his messages and who thought of using detectors to try to see if police had bugged the money so they could follow ? . ’ |
| 8 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |
| 9 | We advertised for people who had previous experience so they could set the system up from scratch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We dragged the man free and Warren drove the car at the dogs to box them in the alleyway so they could not escape . |
| 12 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 13 | TWO men decided to stage a burglary at their home so they could sell a hired television and video recorder , a court heard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some roommates had special arrangement with each other so they could all spend time alone with their ‘ special friend ’ , even sleeping with them . |
| 16 | You ca n't play sport properly on a shoestring so if we could get a major sponsor for the world cup it 'd put a lot of people 's minds at rest so they could concentrate on their cricket |
| 17 | Patrick was born in January but with the hectic promotion battle under way at Prenton Park , Chris and Christina left his baptism until after the soccer season so they could stage a big family party . |
| 18 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 19 | Claims that the English tests had not been properly prepared were dismissed as being ‘ without any validity at all , ’ and he stressed the importance of the tests in identifying pupils with reading difficulties at an early age so they could be given extra help . |
| 20 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 21 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 22 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 23 | A Department of Transport spokesman said : ‘ The trippers wanted the booze left on the roadside so they could come back for it . ’ |
| 24 | Uncle Edgar even dammed a little pool so they could have a dip with their picnics . |
| 25 | By this time saucers were also being lined with glass so they could be gilded . |
| 26 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 27 | I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon 's phone number so they could contact me if they wished . |
| 28 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 29 | they employed six thousand people and when the came they all went to Law Street adjacent to the factory so they could walk across to the job and er look at it now , they 've smashed it all down , it 's gon na be an Asian big store . |
| 30 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |