Example sentences of "so [pron] can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smile and be pleasant , make your way through the ballroom so everyone can see you . ’ |
| 2 | Come up for God 's sake , Harry , so I can pull you out . |
| 3 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 4 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'll only take hold of this damn bag so I can go I will . |
| 6 | ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’ |
| 7 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 8 | I 'd be most obliged if you 'd open your door so I can tell you what this is about . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm watching it on television so I can tell you what happens . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So I can tell you that the word is that they have not found what they were looking for . |
| 11 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 12 | Now jump into bed so I can tuck you in . |
| 13 | ‘ I like a film to have a beginning , a middle and an ending , preferably in that order , so I can follow it , ’ he says , Mortimer 's screenplay knowingly making him paraphrase Godard 's view that a ‘ film must have a beginning , a middle and an ending , not necessarily in that order . ’ |
| 14 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 15 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |
| 16 | Maybe next time you 'll wear a pink carnation/ so I can recognise you — hooo ! |
| 17 | Please send me a subscription so I can cancel it in disgust . |
| 18 | I 'm really well adjusted so I can let it all hang out . |
| 19 | Eunice : We own this place so I can let you in . |
| 20 | ‘ So I can kiss her , all bare and smooth . ’ |
| 21 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Will you share a drop with me ? ’ he says , waving the bottle so I can see it . |
| 23 | They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular . |
| 24 | I try to take it off so I can keep it , but the paper tears . |
| 25 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 26 | Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ . |
| 27 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | She 's gon na , perm the top so she can grow it out . |
| 29 | Could you just let us into his rooms so she can get them ? |
| 30 | Because I 'm going to help her with her paper round tomorrow so she can get it done early — the people do n't come before 7 and we 've got to be at the bus terminus by 8.30 ; because that 's when we 've arranged to meet — ; meet our friends of course and so if I help her with her round she can get it done in time . |