Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 4 | If they have to shoot to kill so that their children live , they will . |
| 5 | Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win . |
| 6 | It was a reminder of the early days of European seamanship , when captains discouraged their crews from learning how to swim so that they were more likely to sink with their ship than abandon their posts and struggle for shore . |
| 7 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 8 | It is better for both partners to attend so that they can discuss the issue and fully appreciate its implications . |
| 9 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 10 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 11 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 12 | If rights are being infringed the Purchaser will need to know so that it can restructure the Business to avoid further infringements . |
| 13 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 14 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 15 | He wanted the days to pass so that he could be back at Ravenswood School , safe in the dining-hall and his classroom . |
| 16 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 17 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 18 | How odd people were , how unpredictable and curious , how difficult it was to know how to behave so that one pleased oneself and society as well . |
| 19 | She slept badly , often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning . |
| 20 | Behind Boswell 's published account of his fidgety stay at the Mackinnons ' — he felt so lethargic that he did not encourage Johnson to talk so that he would not have to write it down — lies some oddity . |
| 21 | Each executive selected an episode that he wished to redesign so that it would not have negative consequences . |
| 22 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 23 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 24 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 25 | Well in er , this policy any time if you want to surrender so if you need er , some of the money , you can get that money or any time . |
| 26 | Though the actual trees stood back against the sky their reflections had to be made to advance so that their topmost branches felt close . |
| 27 | This means you can also tailor rooms for others to use so that they ca n't get at applications you do n't want them to use . |
| 28 | If you make him feel that he should be getting dressed , and he tries to do so before he is ready , in rehabilitation terms , he will certainly increase his spasticity and make himself even less capable of learning the movements . |
| 29 | They therefore chose to look after their children during the week , and to allow their husbands to do so while they went to work on Sundays . |
| 30 | Above all , this means taking a strategic view of multimedia and its impact on traditional publishing practice and markets and to do so while there is still time . |