Example sentences of "so that [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not fight by raising its wings and clashing its talons and making noise ; but quietly , cleverly , making you see the Men as friends , making you fear the wide world outside , so that when opportunity comes you will not take it as you should but hide behind excuses like ‘ The time is n't right yet ’ or ‘ I do n't think I can do that ’ . |
| 2 | So that when evening came they were both tired , not only from physical effort but from sheer exposure to the elements — Fen perhaps most of all , because from time to time he had insisted that Robbie go below . |
| 3 | So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key . |
| 4 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 5 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |