Example sentences of "it [adv] so that " in BNC.

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1 Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe .
2 and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ?
3 He switched on the torch , but directed it upward so that there was only diffused light on the forest floor .
4 Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much .
5 And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot .
6 Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ?
7 Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ?
8 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
9 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
10 Was it just so that they could , for political means again to get peasant support ?
11 If you think something you 've noticed is important , report it separately so that it can be put on the resident 's file .
12 Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars .
13 She let the champagne touch her mouth , then opened it slightly so that the clean coldness flushed the fatness of her lower lip and spilled from her teeth to her tongue .
14 Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash .
15 It needed a lot of experience to be able to hold it correctly so that all the twenty-five shots in the magazine riddled the target .
16 Now planners have attached bits of escalator and supposed ‘ modern design ’ to it willy-nilly so that there 's no room for shoppers and no apparent view of the cathedrals .
17 If so please do it now so that we can have static or physical displays in every area to publicise Medau and YOUR class/es .
18 Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings .
19 It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin .
20 Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it .
21 I want to write about it here so that new writers will know it exists and perhaps be brave enough to address this difficult aspect of our experience in their work .
22 Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver .
23 But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued , and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue , or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences .
24 I 've put it there so that it 'll look neat .
25 Whoever thoroughly understands a principle should be able to expound it intelligibly so that other people , non-experts , should understand it as well .
26 If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer .
27 In addition to such new network technology , there are also techniques of solving band width problems by compressing data before transferring it and decompressing it afterwards so that it can be displayed in its entirety for the information user .
28 Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke
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