Example sentences of "so [pron] could [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I took a mug of coffee up to the pathologist so I could earwig what was going down .
2 ‘ I do remember buying books of halfpenny tickets , so I could practice on my own in addition to the visits with the school .
3 Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road .
4 The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area .
5 BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers .
6 The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor .
7 Powerless to stop the violation , the peacekeepers then watched Croatian Serbs break into UN-guarded storage areas to remove their heavy weapons so they could retaliate. — Reuter
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