Example sentences of "they so [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
| 2 | But he was either moody and difficult , or else in tearing spirits , playing with the children and upsetting them so that their mother would come and whip them afterwards for the noise they made . |
| 3 | The other is to disperse them so that their unwanted presence may be put more or less out of sight ’ ( p. 280 ) . |
| 4 | Place the horses inside the stable holes , securing them with royal icing and positioning them so that their heads peep out over the doors . |
| 5 | Let us try to recognise our faults and seek to overcome them so that we can learn to feel self-respect . |
| 6 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 7 | We may constantly try to assert our individuality and separateness from others by inevitable disagreement , rejection of their views and immediate aggression towards them so that we stage pre-emptive strikes . |
| 8 | We need to bring them into the light and recognise them so that we may dispatch them . ’ |
| 9 | Teenagers Andrew Duff and Delightful Steven Massey ‘ saved he day ’ on each of the two Saturdays — would that we had more like them so that we could have ‘ Live Aid ’ as well as Christian Aid . |
| 10 | If there are relatives and friends , arrangements will often be made to suit them so that they can attend . |
| 11 | The problem is how to link them so that they become like sentences in a play or poem . |
| 12 | Then in the machine shop we mill and grind them and bore holes in them so that they can be assembled into more complex products , like engines . |
| 13 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 14 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 15 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 16 | Starting at the top , carefully remove the stones or bricks , and stack them so that they can be replaced in the correct position |
| 17 | The burrow collapses around them so that they are effectively buried alive . |
| 18 | I hope that coaches in this country , when they are coaching youngsters , will coach them so that they do not have those kinds of weaknesses . |
| 19 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 20 | You could use a largely inorganic balanced source like Growmore , and rely on the bulky peat or compost for the organic input , but better still is to use organic matter like sewage sludge , poultry , farmyard and animal manures , blend them to achieve balance both in content and time , and to dry and concentrate them so that they are pleasant to handle and easy to spread . |
| 21 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 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 | The tiles have grooves and ridges on them so that they do not fall out . |
| 24 | The faces of the three nearly touched , as the two men leant over the table to hear what the woman had to say , and the woman leant over towards them so that they could hear her whisper . |
| 25 | we 're prepared to look at the the client reports and change them so that they become as good as we , we can get them . |
| 26 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 27 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 28 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |