Example sentences of "so that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 2 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 3 | He timed the swinging of chandeliers in the cathedral and at once abstracted the essence of the problem , so that he made pendulums of string and small weights and established the relationship between length and time of swing , using his own pulse for measurement , for there existed no device for fine accurate timing . |
| 4 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 5 | Alan sat down again , knotting his legs around one another so that he made a dangerously tight parcel . |
| 6 | Jane smiled cheerfully , so that he thought she was being charitable , or even contemptuous , and he looked down at his hands . |
| 7 | The patient who can not sit up may start by washing in bed , with the nurse guiding him , so that he does not risk over-balancing and falling . |
| 8 | The point of using a lift is to prevent the patient from making any effort at all , so that he does not increase his spasticity by trying to achieve movements he is not yet capable of making successfully . |
| 9 | The patient keeps his hands clasped together throughout the active parts of the transfer , so that he does not throw himself off balance by reaching out to grab the carer or the arm of the chair . |
| 10 | If the patient has to get dressed before he is able to dress independently , you have to dress him with care , so that he does not get involved in making any effort . |
| 11 | If he wants to take up sports again , the patient must be guided by his physiotherapist , so that he does not attempt exercises which are too hard , which would inevitably increase his spasticity . |
| 12 | When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip . |
| 13 | He may be taught to hold it with the crook of the handle turned away from him , and his thumb over the top of the handle , so that he does not grip the stick too hard . |
| 14 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 15 | The more complex partner gives the simpler nature too much space , so that he does not know where he belongs . |
| 16 | The pronunciation he knows gets in the way , so that he does n't really see what he 's written down . |
| 17 | 100 ) , but Macedon was only a secondary theatre in the Decelean and Ionian Wars , so that he does not figure very much in the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon . |
| 18 | Be prepared to tell the boat to windward that this is what you intend to do so that he does nor barge down onto you and force you further along the line . |
| 19 | The one who goes f fi Who 's going to go second goes out so that he does n't hear anything and erm and then they change over er after thirty minutes . |
| 20 | Time enough , perhaps , to break his health so that he does not long survive his freedom . ’ |
| 21 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 22 | Well , oh yes , but that 's , that 's for his phone so that he does n't need a he does n't need hands so he can hold the steering wheel when he answers the phone . |
| 23 | Now just in case you think I 'm sinking into the role of a self-righteous preacher , who enjoys telling other people off about their sins , so that he does n't have to bother about his own , |
| 24 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 25 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 26 | Clearly Eliot was fascinated by the relationships posited between art and ritual , so that he stressed in 1923 that ‘ all art emulates the condition of ritual . |
| 27 | Nicolo shifted his weight so that he lay above her . |
| 28 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 29 | He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics . |
| 30 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |