Example sentences of "so they can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 2 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 3 | Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds . |
| 4 | Just to illustrate how important this thing is , you 've probably all come across and it really irritates me , you see people interviewing people on television and they 've got their clipboard there and they 've obviously got a prepared question so they ca n't falter and fine , that means they 've prepared it . |
| 5 | Then you slide the inner wall across and use it to pin them against the side of the cage so they ca n't move or fight . |
| 6 | It 's best to approach an animal with the wind blowing into your face so they ca n't pick up your scent . |
| 7 | The boats are designed with weights in the keel so they ca n't capsize . |
| 8 | As strawberries ripen , push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they ca n't rot on the soil . |
| 9 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 10 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 11 | They have no money , so they have no accommodation , so they ca n't find a job . |
| 12 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 13 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 14 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 15 | They do n't have electrical power , so they ca n't use a telegraph . ’ |
| 16 | No one should be asking them ‘ True or false ? ’ : they fool themselves this way , so they can easily fool us . |
| 17 | Some clients might put forward the excuse that there is really nothing that they avoid and so they can not set themselves any homework tasks . |
| 18 | The eyes of almost all sharks and rays lack cone cells , so they can not perceive colour . |
| 19 | A favourite method of torment sees the bogie leap on its victim 's back as they travel alone at night on a country road , clasping hard hands over the person 's eyes so they can not see . |
| 20 | They can not speak the language , so they can not get work and they need help . |
| 21 | If people have a bad cold , the nasal cavity gets blocked up and so they can not say the sounds properly . |
| 22 | The BMWs slowly roll down the impressive new production line where the team of mechanics eagerly await their arrival — so they can carefully take the cars to pieces . |
| 23 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 24 | There were these huge plants in disintegrating tubs , so I said : ‘ We must get concrete blocks and put them round the tubs , so they can just fall apart inside ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Wilsons , Samuel , Sam Smith 's erm it 's , it 's th you know , it 's they 've all brought each other up now so they can virtually get anything . |
| 26 | They 've used all their timber stores and cut up every bucket and table and door to make all those fighting platforms and towers , so they can hardly have plugs for their cannon , and they wo n't have any fuel except dung . |
| 27 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 28 | Some of their potatoes have adapted to cold so they can still grow when their leaves are white with frost . |
| 29 | Should things get rough to the point of injury then separate with a clear divider so they can still see each other , but do this only if it absolutely necessary . |