Example sentences of "so that we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 2 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 3 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 4 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 5 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 6 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 7 | As usual when we entered a church together , I dipped my finger in the holy water and gave you a drop from my fingertips , so that we could cross ourselves together , like a novio and novia . |
| 8 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 9 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 10 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 11 | Then we 'd again pace 100 yards , counting the paces and the time it took , so that we could do dead reckoning on our march in . |
| 12 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |
| 13 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 14 | A second classification was made using a supervised approach so that we could capitalize on our local knowledge of the study area . |
| 15 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 16 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 17 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , but we 'd like to be there at the beginning so that we could if we want to , then run away , ’ Eve explained . |
| 19 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 20 | We are thinking of buying a small estate outside the city , three or four acres , so that we could have a real nice ranch-type bungalow — and keep some riding horses . ’ |
| 21 | Kleenex was handed round so that we could dry our hands and we settled together for coffee . |
| 22 | Skipper Rupert Moon said : ‘ There are firemen , policemen and doctors in our side and they have had to switch shifts or take holiday leave so that we could get together early . |
| 23 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 24 | Me and all my friends ended up in this cult and the first thing this guy said we had to do was turn all of our friendships against each other so that we could n't trust anybody . |
| 25 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 26 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 27 | and studied and er so that we could copy their |
| 28 | Firstly , we are offering a family the diagnosis of a lethal untreatable disorder in an apparently healthy baby ; secondly , the protocol was designed so that we could modify practice in the light of experience ; and , thirdly , families should have choice at every stage from the initial screening test to a confirmed diagnosis . |
| 29 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 30 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |