Example sentences of "so [conj] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although he ca n't see this fox . |
| 2 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 3 | In their discussion of this incident Asikpasazade and Nesri refer to " Mevlana Haydar " as danismend " newly come from Persia " , so that he may well have arrived in the Ottoman lands at about the same time as Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 4 | The patient might rehearse in imagination the most constructive alternative so that he may readily adopt it if a crisis occurs . |
| 5 | We must allow Jesus in the Eucharist to come out of isolation so that he may once again lead and save Christian society as its head ’ . |
| 6 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 7 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 8 | So that he might not be sad twice . |
| 9 | Radulfus mounted the three shallow steps , and with both hands opened the Gospels , his eyes fixed above , upon the cross , so that he might not calculate where , on the exposed page , his finger should rest . |
| 10 | Almost violently , she raised her body , ducking her head at the same time , her feverish lips seeking the scorching lure of his again , the demand for his kiss born out of an intuitive need to let him silence her , so that he might not hear the words and other sounds which would tell him just how complete his dominion of her senses already was . |
| 11 | ‘ We try to give him a little less tranquilliser each time , so that he might gradually get over it , but he does n't seem to get any better . |
| 12 | All this was made so that he might obscenely observe himself with his favourite women . |
| 13 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 14 | For sure he takes pains to make Tikhon a human puzzle so that he sha n't in any obvious way speak God 's truth . |
| 15 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 16 | Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner . |
| 17 | ‘ This boy behaved in an underhand way , setting up situations so that he would n't get into trouble , but David would when he had left . |
| 18 | Anna could hear Edward calling but she kept in her hiding place , covering her mouth so that he would n't hear her laugh . |
| 19 | Clasping a pencil impotently between his fingers he clenched his free hand into a fist and dug his knuckles into the table so that he would n't cry . |
| 20 | A huge lump of misery welled up into his throat and he stiffened his jaw so that he would n't disgrace himself by crying . |
| 21 | Zach found himself totally mesmerized and placed his finger on the page so that he would n't lose his place . |
| 22 | We tried to pull the leg up so that he would n't put so much weight on it , but then he only found it even harder to walk straight . |
| 23 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 24 | ‘ One of us just had a lucky escape , ’ she said , turning abruptly so that he would n't see the smile on her face . |
| 25 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 26 | Then he 'd look to see which way they were travelling , so that he would n't get into their line of flight . |
| 27 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 28 | She kept her eyes downcast so that he would n't see its telltale signs , and sullenly dressed while he continued to pace up and down , probably trying to release some energy . |
| 29 | Kate turned away so that he would n't see the pain in her face . |
| 30 | Robyn thought swiftly , moving further into the darker edges of the room , so that he would n't see too clearly how awful she looked . |