Example sentences of "so [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 2 | The friend felt Levi had survived ‘ so that I could bear witness ’ . |
| 3 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When she had finished , she passed it over so that I could sign it . |
| 6 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 7 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 8 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 9 | Keith Thomas pressed a button and a huge door clanked upwards so that I could peer into the heart of the furnace . |
| 10 | I get into a No Smoking carriage and , since the station interior is rather dark , switch on a light so that I can read Berlioz . |
| 11 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 12 | As agreed , he swung a punch to my chin so that I should rise in an elegant arc of slow motion to fall sprawled in a dramatic contortion on the bar room floor . |
| 13 | I recreate the absent proprietor ’ , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : ‘ I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world ’ ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 14 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 15 | I make hot chocolate so that I can sleep more easily and as I sip it I am suddenly overcome with weariness . |
| 16 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 17 | I leap outside into the snow , stand ankle deep in the snow and strain frantically at the same time trying to remember which direction I am pointing so that I can give instructions about where not to get the snow for tomorrow 's tea . |
| 18 | We usually go in daily , so that I can check that he 's doing his job right . |
| 19 | A third says : ‘ I love to read a few words of the Gospel , so that I can see Christ and listen to what He is saying to me . ’ |
| 20 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
| 21 | Please tell me how I can arrange my valuable wardrobe space so that I 'm able to get the most out of it ? |
| 22 | A policeman , already working overtime , said calmly : ‘ I hope there 'll be no trouble tonight so that I can go home early . |
| 23 | He treats both subjects with a wit which is lucid and ambiguous at one and the same time , so that I recalled Charles Lamb 's remark about the possibility of obscurity through too much meaning . |
| 24 | It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote . |
| 25 | So that I can not choose but write my mind , |
| 26 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 27 | Believe me , to conclude , tho' I have no business head , for large & lengthy affairs , I am keen enough in figures & small matters , & always was ; so that I can not be disputed . |
| 28 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 29 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 30 | ’ . So that I disturbed nothing , but went out through a door into the walled kitchen garden — the garden with its crumbly black soil enriched by centuries of pigs , pails , and poultry , where soon houses would stand . |