Example sentences of "so that [pers pn] could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Ely claimed Benwick as part of his chase : they had been met by the bishop 's bailiff , leading three priests in full vestments , with Bible , cross and candle , ‘ so that they could make no inquest there that day ’ . |
| 3 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 4 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 5 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 6 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 7 | Maxim just wanted to know where the battle lines now stood so that they could make new plans . |
| 8 | There the government even lent ceremonial costumes from the treasury to poor members of the tsar 's council , the boyarskaya duma , so that they could make a suitably impressive show when an envoy from the west was officially received in Moscow . |
| 9 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 10 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 11 | When he let go of her , she fell back against the sideboard , clutching it for support , fighting for enough composure so that she could make some clever response that would make clear that the kiss had not disturbed her in the least . |
| 12 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 13 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 14 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
| 15 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 16 | Dorcas had changed the wiring so that he could make it ring whenever he liked . |
| 17 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 18 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |