Example sentences of "so that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that we knew what pattern the tiles had been in . |
| 2 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 3 | Every Buttermere neighbour and old wrestling foe would be given a free mug of beer as his first drink and throughout the day Joseph would ask a little — often useless — favour here , another there in order to keep them within his ken : so that they kept their eyes , he would say to himself , on the signals coming from the flagship . |
| 4 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 5 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 6 | A child darted out in front of the striding troopers so that they checked their pace . |
| 7 | just so that they found her but she was unconscious . |
| 8 | The bag moved , so that they lost their balance again and fell over . |
| 9 | If she went out it was at night and she would arrange her veils so that they covered her face four times . |
| 10 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 11 | The now familiar palpitating flutter in her heart made itself felt and the blood drummed unpleasantly in her head so that she feared she might lose her senses . |
| 12 | He took up a sleeping-bag , unzipping it so that she had something dry to sit on . |
| 13 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 14 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she had somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
| 15 | so that she desired herself alone in order to become androgynous . |
| 16 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at me , ’ he ordered , giving her a sharp shake so that she raised her head . |
| 18 | He would drop her , of course , sooner or later — or rather , he would engineer it so that she dropped him . |
| 19 | It was a day lying hidden among all the other days of the year , so that she noticed nothing when it came round , and did not know what week , month , season or year it would be . |
| 20 | His anger matched her own , then outgrew it so that she felt her breath catch in dismay as she saw the expression on his coldly furious face . |
| 21 | He was terrified , and his fear began to obsess her , so that she felt her own body begin to knot up with tension again . |
| 22 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 23 | When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free … |
| 24 | He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement . |
| 25 | The universe inside her mind exploded her out from its centre of I and other beings poured into her so that she knew their inner selves . |
| 26 | He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came . |
| 27 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 28 | Kate 's expression was hardly conciliatory , and he had to remind her in a fierce whisper that he was an important sponsor , so that she allowed herself to smile and be polite . |
| 29 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 30 | Lyn took one of the gravel paths into the grounds of the general hospital , walking towards the sun that dazzled her eyes so that she screwed them up against it . |