Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 2 | This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before . |
| 3 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
| 4 | I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working . |
| 5 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 6 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 7 | So that I ca n't say I had any positive feelings in the first place , but the realisation that everybody else had negative feelings made me love him . |
| 8 | On the other side of the rim I can see way over the savannah in the direction of the Mountain of God , which is reduced in size so that I ca n't be sure which of the outcrops on the horizon it is . |
| 9 | " Well , let us tie our tails together then , so that I ca n't ! " suggested the cunning jackal . |
| 10 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 11 | ‘ And keep an eye on me so that I wo n't escape , ’ she bit out before biting into her toast . |
| 12 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 13 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 14 | I 'm explaining why I wanted it on a regular arrangement so that I would n't have to be annoying you when you 're … well , when you 've had a drink I suppose . ’ |
| 15 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 16 | I removed my flake-laden pom-pom inside , dashed it on my knee , and stayed bare-headed a while , so that I would n't appear like a nut bent on an assassination mission . |
| 17 | Ready for the season so that I would n't have to buy a lot of things when you were busy . |
| 18 | The girls started to arrive and I looked busy with a pile of papers so that I would n't have to talk to them . |
| 19 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 20 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |
| 21 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 22 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 23 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 24 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |
| 25 | a short preambulum … so that I may gradually learn it by heart . |
| 26 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 27 | I was forced to pay more attention to lessons in science and history at Varndean , purely so that I might better understand my other , shadowier tutelage . |
| 28 | A real home with animals , and a huge fire where you can roast chestnuts on winter evenings , and a studio with lockers built in , so that I 'd never have to tidy up ! ’ |
| 29 | That each morning , like a beautiful woman , it will reveal some hidden facet to me so that I will never be bored with its presence . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah so that I can either have it up or down really . |