Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] so [that] " in BNC.

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1 Get angry about this bully , this cheap punk , this yob who reckons that you are a soft option ; this hooligan who scouts the streets for weaker victims , who wants to beat you senseless so that he can brag about it to his beer-swilling pals in the local pub .
2 It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me !
3 The way round it is to avoid making everything a priority , which is the great temptation in the health service , and establish what 's wanted by both ministers and users participating in a debate about what matters so that you limit the number of priorities , then get them refined so that they are easily understandable and structured . ’
4 In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence .
5 With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow .
6 Leave them open so that the remaining rabbits are able to escape , hopefully into other burrows or another section of the system where they will provide sport for another day .
7 strip , straight them open so that , they 're like that a bit instead er
8 The search for plurality both evaluates the text and yet leaves it intact so that it can yield more possibilities .
9 The need to make it clear so that people understand without having to sort of keep coming back and asking again and again , yep , great , thanks .
10 Or is part of it missing so that you trust what you know but wonder what the rest is like ?
11 Once satisfied , I got a large cardboard carton and broke it open so that the development could be accurately drawn .
12 Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them .
13 Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle .
14 I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away .
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