Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] might [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . |
| 2 | And I made sure I blabbed a bit to her , even contradicting in inessential details some of the earlier relations to the Colonel , so that he might think he was getting better quality intelligence this way . |
| 3 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 4 | They moved in , and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place . |
| 5 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 6 | As I screwed up my eyes against the dazzle , trying to see the creature so that I might describe it to Crispin , it vanished . |
| 7 | People who do n't know we drove for miles in the rain so that it might reach them in time . ’ |
| 8 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 9 | A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him . |