Example sentences of "so [that] [pers pn] " 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 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 3 | Generally , art criticism connected with mixed and group exhibitions is commentary from outside , so that we shall return to them , with only this brief mention here , in the next chapter . |
| 4 | The glider dived almost vertically and I was just in time to pull back on the stick so that we hit the ground in a level attitude without any damage . |
| 5 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 6 | Science exists so that we can improve our understanding of naturally occurring phenomena . |
| 7 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 8 | I WOULD rather take my children into the main bar or lounge of a pub and expect them to sit sensibly and reasonably quietly so that we can all relax , drink , talk and eat in a proper pub atmosphere . |
| 9 | Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency . |
| 10 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 11 | We will tackle putting our economy in order so that we can achieve that social ambition , so that the strong economy is used to finance and develop the fair society . ’ |
| 12 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition , so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection . |
| 13 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |
| 14 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 15 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 16 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 17 | Now we are appealing for money and we are asking the people of Oxfordshire for their help ; money so that we can continue to help people in your county like John Granger … |
| 18 | May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind , so that we can see what hope his call holds for us . |
| 19 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 20 | Next he uses the same technique but this time on to a sheet of transparent glass placed on trestles , which allows the photographer to film the act through the glass , so that we see the paint falling around the pebbles and wires already placed on the glass . |
| 21 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 22 | In 1949 , Amaldi wrote to the Italian prime minister asking for permission to produce and sell sealing wax for letters , ‘ so that we may raise needed funds for our physics lab ’ . |
| 23 | Be with them in peace so that we may remain with our family and children in peace . |
| 24 | And as this competition intensifies we should become more demanding so that we actually get the kind of services and products we want . |
| 25 | Whether you are moving to another part of the country or going abroad let us know as soon as possible so that we can publicise details of your property to maximum effect . |
| 26 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 27 | Christ , in some mysterious way , takes upon himself our folly and failure and makes it his own , so that we may go free . |
| 28 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 29 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 30 | Slowly , so that we can watch her face . |