Example sentences of "so [that] she [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 2 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 3 | I thought I would dig it up again , and put it in her bed , all covered with mould , so that she would know it was dead , but after a while she stopped crying , so I left it there . |
| 4 | She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . |
| 5 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 6 | And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear . |
| 7 | He hauled the basket up the slope , towards the place where Jinny had been , so that she could retrieve hers , but he did not stop there . |
| 8 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
| 9 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 10 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 11 | so that she could sing it over you again . ’ |
| 12 | She told herself she wanted to have her photograph taken so that she could send it to Aunt Sarah , but really it was for herself . |
| 13 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 14 | Reluctantly , Jinny looked away from the woman so that she could inspect him . |
| 15 | Once they had spent an enjoyable week in Bath and on another occasion he had suggested going to Cornwall so that she could show him the house where she was brought up . |
| 16 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 17 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 18 | She slid her hands around his neck and drew his head down so that she could kiss him , feeling the way his heart began to thunder in his chest . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , indeed ? ’ said Sally-Anne furiously to this supporter of wife-beaters — and if only he would move so that she could see him , and not continue to stand between herself and the light — ‘ How typically male . |
| 20 | Automatically she turned so that she could see him , and knew immediately it was a fatal error . |
| 21 | I spoke to her , telling her to do as we had earlier discussed and detach herself from the scene so that she could see it and tell me about it but could not feel any distress , whether mental , physical or emotional . |
| 22 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 23 | He was causing these noises deliberately , so that she 'd know he was there , so that she 'd know he did n't want to talk to her . |
| 24 | He was causing these noises deliberately , so that she 'd know he was there , so that she 'd know he did n't want to talk to her . |
| 25 | I must take it off at once and give it to Donna so that she can rinse it … ’ |
| 26 | What we did with , we bought her a little guitar so that she can play it and have a bit of music and something to do |
| 27 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |