Example sentences of "so [conj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I would s I would guess so or I would think so as well . |
| 2 | Do you know if such a list exists and if so where I might get hold of it ? |
| 3 | So although I 'd assume a potential audience of mainly women who 'd be interested in this topic , the programme actually distanced that audience by addressing a hypothetical man who 'd think it rather ‘ odd ’ to select women candidates at all . |
| 4 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 7 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " Well , let us tie our tails together then , so that I ca n't ! " suggested the cunning jackal . |
| 11 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 12 | ‘ And keep an eye on me so that I wo n't escape , ’ she bit out before biting into her toast . |
| 13 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 16 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 23 | Whatever I learnt , I shared with Joe , not , I 'm afraid , so that he would be more educated , but so that I would be less ashamed of him in front of Estella . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 26 | Ready for the season so that I would n't have to buy a lot of things when you were busy . |
| 27 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 30 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |