Example sentences of "so that [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel . |
| 2 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 3 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
| 4 | Hostel staff , poorly paid and untrained , were under pressure from the subcommittee , the school and the local community , so that they erred on the side of caution in everything , thus frustrating the pupils . |
| 5 | But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth . |
| 6 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 7 | So that they got to all go off at once . |
| 8 | The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning . |
| 9 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 10 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |
| 11 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 12 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 13 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 14 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 15 | Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire . |
| 16 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 17 | Actual allocations to regions would gradually be adjusted over several years so that they moved towards the target allocations . |
| 18 | They pulled sharply at the strings , then released the kites so that they flew in a succession of angular jerks , higher and higher into the pink evening sky . |
| 19 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 20 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 21 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 22 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 23 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 24 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 25 | I 'm bound to say that they failed to learn from their own history after nineteen-eighteen , so that they did in effect repeat erm their history a second time with disastrous consequences for everybody . |
| 26 | In order to communicate with military headquarters in Moscow Russian engineers had simply diverted some of the multicore trunk circuits from the main Vienna exchange so that they terminated in the Imperial Hotel . |
| 27 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 28 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 29 | He rolled his hand over so that hers rested in his palm . |
| 30 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |