Example sentences of "so that they could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 2 | There was a bell at the end , which was rung by the ticket-collector or guard to warn the women of his approach so that they could cover themselves appropriately . |
| 3 | Another option is to develop tests which could tell people if they were at risk of falling under a particular spell so that they could choose their pleasures wisely . |
| 4 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 5 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 6 | The translations were not the only technical difficulty : there were only two shorthand writers in the court and they were hard pressed to keep up with the proceedings , causing the court to be adjourned more than once so that they could transcribe their notes . |
| 7 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 8 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 9 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 10 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 11 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 12 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 13 | On their return to Vienna they appeared before the Emperor who failed to reward them , and Leopold became convinced that members of the aristocracy were deliberately avoiding Mozart so that they could dismiss his talents as |
| 14 | But the partisan warfare went on : Walter Long and his PPS , Sir William Bull ( who had been on the Conference himself ) , reacted angrily to complaints from the agents and suggested that the professional organizers wanted to keep the system as complicated as possible so that they could keep their pay and privileges . |
| 15 | So that they could get it for the turn of the new leaf of the quarter . |
| 16 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 17 | The electricity people called to ask my permission to put poles in my land so that they could take it even higher , and I agreed to it . |
| 18 | Sometimes they cleared all the furniture back against the walls so that they could practise their special dance routines , or held rowdy parties in each other 's rooms . |
| 19 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 20 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 21 | Needless to say , it was the part which most of them hated ; they were longing to get it finished so that they could write their essays on Hamlet or Keats . |
| 22 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 23 | Rufus overtook a bus going to Colchester and dropped the two in the back so that they could catch it . |
| 24 | The faces of the three nearly touched , as the two men leant over the table to hear what the woman had to say , and the woman leant over towards them so that they could hear her whisper . |
| 25 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 26 | So , apart from opening presents , they watched each other and waited for Christmas to be over so that they could resume their intense and private working lives . |
| 27 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 28 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 29 | Religious congregations of monks and nuns also used home-written music for the Office , and the Panel of Monastic Musicians was founded so that they could share their efforts and talents . |
| 30 | that wax , and erm , I mean they were , they 'd brought them in before Christmas so that they could sell 'em |