Example sentences of "a [noun sg] so that i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get into a No Smoking carriage and , since the station interior is rather dark , switch on a light so that I can read Berlioz . |
| 2 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 3 | One o'clock — after lunch my mother shows me how to make a cake so that I can have it for tea . |
| 4 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 5 | When the telegram arrived , Joan and I went for a walk so that I could work the adrenalin out of my system . |
| 6 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 7 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |