Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So that I may enter alone , of course . |
| 2 | I make hot chocolate so that I can sleep more easily and as I sip it I am suddenly overcome with weariness . |
| 3 | A policeman , already working overtime , said calmly : ‘ I hope there 'll be no trouble tonight so that I can go home early . |
| 4 | Please let me know if you wish to speak during lunchbreak so that I can gauge roughly how long it will take . |
| 5 | Over twenty years that same feature has become apparent to me , so that I can say confidently that one feature of a perfect trotting swim is that it will shallow up gradually downstream . |
| 6 | I am so convinced that this is a fact I often only half-fill the ‘ feeder so that I can cast more often and take advantage of the extra number of casts and splashes and those thirty-second deadly periods . |
| 7 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 8 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |
| 9 | I wished he would go away so that I could go upstairs and look at all my clothes . |
| 10 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 11 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |
| 12 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 13 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 14 | Not that I can say either Derek or I have ever had any problems in the Bedroom Compartment . |
| 15 | Not that I can see much after six o'clock or so , but there you are , we all have our little crosses . ’ |
| 16 | Not that I should say so , encourage trespassers , wildlifers , terrifying the poor brutes out of their wits . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew at once that I must live here . |
| 18 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |