Example sentences of "so that [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 2 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 3 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 4 | Another group of prisoners , themselves surrounded by guns and dogs , waited for the slow column to clear the road so that they themselves could pass on . |
| 5 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 6 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 7 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 8 | The man told me to daughter so that they I was being kidnapped . |
| 9 | ‘ No man could come near to imagining the anguish experienced by a woman when she is forced to give away her child so that she herself may live ! ’ |
| 10 | Liza said something about having been ill so that she herself did n't go out much . |
| 11 | Sociable Dorothy , although only seventeen years old , managed to infuse some sort of order into Isobel 's shattered life , hoping that soon Isobel would decide what she would do in the future , so that she herself could go back home to Wales , which , from the vantage point of Tollemarche , seemed infinitely cosy and desirable . |
| 12 | She is here again because I , with a claim of my own to advance , and having regard to yet another claim , with strict fairness , brought her back to Shrewsbury , from which she began her controversial odyssey , so that she herself might choose where she wished to rest . |
| 13 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 14 | The man was close-shaved , wore the scent of deodorant , and Holly was stubble-bearded and stank so that he himself could know the foulness . |
| 15 | I 've sort of squeezed the tin foil so that it it fits very , very tightly around the middle . |