Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] so [that] " in BNC.

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1 I mean so that er er the different stage of society you , you your conversation changes .
2 For this reason , I limit the amount of aerobics I do so that they are within the capability of most people .
3 So I mean it does n't , I mean , I mean the point about social work erm you know doing er some experience is I think so that you actually experience the erm sort of so the , the group dynamics of people who are in trouble and ca n't cope .
4 b ) Maintain as high a standard of instrument flying as you can , and be thoroughly familiar with each type of aircraft and associated flight procedures you fly so that mental conflict is less likely to occur .
5 We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past .
6 Then turn you map so that the map symbol lines up with the real landmark .
7 Always fill in the record of the cheques you issue so that you can check them against your statement .
8 You know so that , that 's quite a good idea .
9 You know so that they do n't make other produce cheaper so that .
10 Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah
11 It 's erm now we 're doing this you know so that the Holy Spirit , as you er remember is the third person in the trinity that we call God .
12 You know so that you are trying to do that .
13 So it 's not a big expense like you know so that we were n't spending the money on ourselves , it 's just needed in the house and needed for the kids like you know .
14 It 's just one , one of those many piec pieces of evidence you know so that the Freud you know like the great detective you know uses all these little insignificant facts and finally puts them all together and draws everybody together you know in the drawing room and says I will now reveal the murderer , you know Moses was not an Egyptian , sorry Moses was not a Jew he was an Egyptian .
15 Yes , though it 's interesting with , with , with things like er alcohol and tobacco because they 're , well at least partly legal , erm you know often there 's quite a , a crisp Manichaean division drawn between them and anything that 's illegal erm you know so that you know kind of once , once you start smoking dope you 're on the slippery slope to er you know kind of heroin and crack and all the rest of it
16 Erm , quite a lot off the top you know so that I can just brush it up
17 Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be .
18 Tell the resident what you plan to do before you start so that he/she knows what is about to happen and can help if possible .
19 To begin , take a deep breath before you start so that you do n't run out of breath in the middle of the sentence .
20 What help us , we we 'll go to we 'll direct the questions to different people erm and if you agree , just say you agree so that we do n't have er erm a session of people just rec reciting what everybody else has said , but if we start with you erm Jim , sorry I ca n't see the
21 Oh I see well you 've got 'em you 've that 's why you put em diagonal you see so that they really do show up against the
22 Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe .
23 What you need to work out is how to use the space and the machinery you have so that you can organise the jigsaw part with the least fuss and inconvenience .
24 If you cast on and work widthways the work will grow in no time and you merely need to work until the strip is slightly longer than you need so that you can cut it to fit after sewing it on .
25 A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore .
26 When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us .
27 It is therefore essential to find a form of activity we enjoy so that we are happy to practise it two or three times a week and continue it for life .
28 avoid formulae and strategies which others , from different disciplines , insist that we adopt so that they can achieve a unified standard .
29 time-consuming , it 's destructive of other things we value so that we value er artistic creation , enjoyment , conversation and so on .
30 And it is essential that we should be the ones who control just which parts of our brains we use so that we can achieve what we have decided are our goals .
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