Example sentences of "[adv] so that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the sale of the cargo and the payment of the net proceeds , U.S.$2,353,991.95 , into court , nothing further was done in the action until 16 January 1992 when Crossman Block issued a summons as ‘ solicitors for the Republic of Somalia ’ applying that the Republic of Somalia be joined as a party to the action , that the buyers of the cargo be also joined , presumably so that they could be bound by any decision of the court , and that |
| 2 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 3 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 4 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 5 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 6 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 7 | The only way around these attempted take-offs was to walk very slowly so that we did n't build up too much ground speed , as airline pilots would say , and stop if Dawn 's wings did open . |
| 8 | Willie , meanwhile , not only remained silent during these conversations , but picked his berries slowly so that they might forget that he was there , but he reckoned without Zach . |
| 9 | Trent turned his body slowly so that he could get his hands on the rope . |
| 10 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 11 | and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ? |
| 12 | He stretched out his arms and then turned slowly so that I could view the recycled Archie from all angles . |
| 13 | Keep a good lookout and stay back from the line a little so that you do n't get into problems with people on starboard tack , then look for a gap to tack into . |
| 14 | It will keep you here a little so that you may have time to make your plans . ’ |
| 15 | ABBERLEY : Would you mind turning your cardiograph around a little so that I can see it ? |
| 16 | be getting a result if you stepped in with another four phones , new lines , you 'd have the use of these four lines for three month , to generate business before you get out with first phone bill on them , right so that you could drop er the lines here if you wanted , at er , at the end of the day , it does n't matter whether you 've got one line or whether you 've got a hundred lines |
| 17 | Wordy and intellectual , with only a small chance of success : the sort of play a cynic would say that producers put on so that they can feel good . |
| 18 | A physiotherapist stated , for instance : ‘ What we want to develop in them is the motivation to try and tackle society , take it head on so that they can actually say I want to go and do this , I want to go and do something else . ’ |
| 19 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 20 | Fujitsu Ltd is having to cast around feverishly for ways to cut its costs , and says it will scale back its planned development projects on semiconductors to cut costs for new production facilities : ‘ We will more carefully choose which development projects to work on so that we will sell only profitable products , ’ a spokesman told Reuters in Tokyo , adding that the effect would be to trim the number of different chip products in its line by some 20% . |
| 21 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 22 | Sort of keep on so that you 're building on that all the time so you think right okay I know how to do capital at the start , full stop at the end , keep that do n't let that go just cos I 'm concentrating on something else . |
| 23 | No I have it on so that you , I can hear you talk . |
| 24 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 25 | I 'll put the water on so that I , I can have hot water on my head . |
| 26 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |
| 27 | Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he |
| 28 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
| 29 | She spent hours in the stockroom , trying everything on so that she could describe each dress to Louise . |
| 30 | He finds time to talk to her and tell her what 's going on so that she 's never at a loss to deal with any situation . |