Example sentences of "[adv] so [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But only so we could do our work .
2 I do n't need a box , oh only so you can break it and then take it back .
3 Come stand together so we can see you both . ’
4 That was just an excuse to throw us together so you could seduce me !
5 And it 's all wired together so you can dial anything in that you want .
6 Patrick I 'm I 'm gon na take a flier with you all right so we can save it .
7 Right so you can use it for almost anything to show but it , it 's showing it as a fraction of the whole thing .
8 Right so you can celebrate he said
9 Anyway , at Fontainebleau the doors were thrown open so we could feast our eyes on this Most Christian of Kings .
10 The old woman turned back to her daughter , remarking belligerently , ‘ Kept her talking downstairs so you might give her a mean account of me , eh ? ’
11 I think she 's going to give up work soon so she can take it easy .
12 I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her .
13 When playing with friends , they 'll have to look away so you can enter your secret bid — no peeking !
14 Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . "
15 These jokes are liable to turn all your friends into a bunch of werewolves , vampires , swamp monsters and slime creatures just so they can get their own back on you .
16 Just so she can change her perception of it all .
17 She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her .
18 ‘ We went to one beforehand just so I could see what it was like and what you did .
19 ‘ Oh , well , ’ scornfully , ‘ if it 's just so you can blow your own trumpet … ’
20 " Why should I help you stuff another client , just so you can make yourself rich ? "
21 I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again .
22 ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’
23 ‘ So , ’ Robyn enquired , striving to keep her temper under control , ‘ you brought me all the way down here just so you could satisfy your own perverse curiosity ? ’
24 When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs .
25 Your caravan is like a second home so you should protect it and its contents in exactly the same way you protect your house or flat .
26 ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him .
27 She wants to prove him wrong so she can slap me down .
28 She spoke slowly , partly so she could drop her voice to the right sort of sexy drawl and partly because she was desperately wondering what to say next .
29 They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out .
30 John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight .
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