Example sentences of "so that you " in BNC.

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31 The lesson is that you must always keep your defences strong so that you are prepared for any situation .
32 This gives each musician time to practise so that you all arrive at the rehearsal ready to try out new , revised musical parts .
33 If all goes well , you may eventually sign an agency deal so that you have someone booking your gigs and possibly arranging tours for the band .
34 Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career .
35 If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him .
36 At the end of the chapter ( Now Try This — 4 ) , we will suggest that you adapt the tests so that you can measure your own performance .
37 An alternative is to take a short nap before the meeting , making sure there is at least one hour between the nap and meeting so that you can waken fully .
38 It is an exciting garden , the hedges and paths divide it so that you come upon different parts almost by surprise , such as the scented garden , the woodland garden , built around some of the trees that Colonel Mitchell left behind him , with a sturdy wooden tree-house for the children , and the patio garden where the Prince sits and does paperwork during the summer months to the soothing sound of water , which springs from a sculpture he commissioned of stone whales .
39 Very much in the spirit of the age , the hall , dining-room and drawingroom all open into each other with great double doors , so that you could entertain on a grand scale .
40 Whereas architectural changes in the small country house had been slowly transitional in the last four hundred years , so that you hardly noticed the slipping of one style into another over , say , a period of fifty years , now the changes were radical and sometimes startling .
41 I will post this at once so that you will have it by tomorrow 's first post .
42 Hebrews 12.3 : ‘ Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself , so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted . ’
43 And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening .
44 When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever .
45 She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping .
46 It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … .
47 What Abraham receives instead is a command , ‘ Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you ’ , and promises : ‘ And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing .
48 They 've even installed closed-circuit television and computers so that you can see it coming round corners .
49 I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing .
50 There are steps leading down so that you can stand up to about chest-level in water , and there are radiators at the sides of the bath to heat the water to a pleasant temperature .
51 Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion .
52 If you enjoy honeysuckle ( and who does n't ? ) go for a mix , so that you have blooms early and late : Lonicera periclymenum ‘ Early Dutch ’ for spring , L. Japonica ‘ Halliana ’ for autumn fragrance .
53 Try to have both roof and side vents so that you can have more control over the greenhouse environment .
54 Try to eat slowly and really savour your food at meals so that you feel satisfied and therefore less likely to snack later on .
55 Ideally , you should adjust your eating so that you are meeting your aims for goal weights or are at least 2 to 3 lb ( 1 kg ) within your goal weight for any particular week .
56 You have exercised and maintained or even increased your metabolic rate so that you can still eat reasonable , good-sized meals and not add body fat .
57 And another five so that you can spunk in my mouth .
58 When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label .
59 It just appears to me as very empty , to wear clothes so that you can look attractive to other people and fit in , be accepted as part of the ‘ in crowd ’ .
60 Are the hotel or centre staff going to throw up their arms in horror if you want an earlier lunch so that you can press on with the afternoon session ?
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