Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] so that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he changed them so that you get , so they 're having one course in and |
| 2 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 3 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 4 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 5 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 6 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 7 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 8 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 9 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 10 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |
| 11 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 12 | Width is n't too important , as long as you 've got a bit of elbow room : we made ours so that it finished at around one metre wide . |
| 13 | The Captain said nothing so that he felt obliged to go on , to explain himself . |