Example sentences of "so [that] she [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in . |
| 2 | Helen , never taking her eyes off Alexandra , craned sideways so that she could wind a finger round and round in a hole in her black stocking . |
| 3 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 4 | It reminded her too that she should really get her into bed so that she could recover a little from the shocks she had received . |
| 5 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 6 | Demonstrating the arbitrariness of the emergency regulations , she was granted a passport in June this year so that she could head a UDF delegation which met Margaret Thatcher and President Bush . |
| 7 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 8 | Feeling suddenly full of energy , she got up , and , switching on the immersion heater so that she could have a bath later , she decided to give the cottage a good clean . |
| 9 | All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’ |
| 10 | As soon as she was old enough , they were going to send her to stay with relatives in the city so that she could get a better education . |
| 11 | He stood back so that she could get a better view of the little black and white Friesian standing in the straw beside its mother . |
| 12 | A designer chose the only flat with a garden and a fashion consultant , Juliet Mann , who is similarly keen on horticulture , chose the only unit with a flat roof so that she could establish a roof-top conservatory above her flat . |