Example sentences of "so [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Murray now wants to give away the Smugglers ' Kitchen so that he can channel his efforts into another property — the Dartmoor Inn at Bovey Tracey , also in Devon . |
| 2 | The aggressive fighter is often weak on defence and generally prefers just to smother your attack so that he can proceed with his own . |
| 3 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 5 | This ritual restored to the mummy all his faculties so that he might enjoy the afterlife to the full . |
| 6 | fellow peasants carry Colas into Mother Simone 's kitchen hidden in sheaves of corn so that he can meet Lise . |
| 7 | The whole performance is based on the classical vocabulary of steps shorn of every convention so that he can go ‘ swifter than an arrow from an archer 's bow ’ . |
| 8 | For sure he takes pains to make Tikhon a human puzzle so that he sha n't in any obvious way speak God 's truth . |
| 9 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 10 | would cajole , and almost coerce , other men into writing well : so that he often presents the appearance of a man trying to convey to a very deaf person the fact that the house is on fire . |
| 11 | He said he had also been offered interviews with ministers in the South African government , so that he could form a balanced judgement , but had declined . |
| 12 | Parry has turned down an offer to play in the World Matchplay and with it , an automatic £12,500 reward , and has also decided to pull out of a couple of rich Japanese tournaments , so that he can play again next week in the BMW International . |
| 13 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 14 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 15 | Clearly Eliot was fascinated by the relationships posited between art and ritual , so that he stressed in 1923 that ‘ all art emulates the condition of ritual . |
| 16 | His face grew puffy , his arms and legs swelled up , and his fingers turned into purple sausages so that he kept dropping his darts . |
| 17 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 18 | Odd-Knut dropped us off so that he could go and get the last of his dog food . |
| 19 | If necessary , take him shopping with you , or better still , send him to the supermarket alone so that he realises the cost of basic necessities . |
| 20 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 21 | An Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) donning his equipment on the site of a suspected Improvised explosive Device ( IED ) — Army terminology for a terrorist bomb — so that he can make a close inspection of the device if necessary |
| 22 | Again Herr Nordern was going to speak , knowing as he did so that he would sound feeble , when again Bodo stepped in and said , in a distinctly non-feeble voice , which sounded like a cement-mixer , ‘ Of course he remembers . |
| 23 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 24 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 25 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 26 | Brian Rowe has relinquished his role as Eastern Counties Field Officer so that he can concentrate on developing the Salt Cellar as a joint churches enterprise in Sudbury . |
| 27 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 28 | The company has decided to remove editorial responsibilities from the deputy editor , Mr Richard Lambert , so that he can tackle the RSI outbreak . |
| 29 | Before that Gloucester , in an inspired spell , twice came close to equalising , through the lorry driver Steve Talboys , up at 5am so that he could play , and Townsend . |
| 30 | They moved in , and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place . |