Example sentences of "so [that] i would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 2 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 3 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 4 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 5 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 6 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm explaining why I wanted it on a regular arrangement so that I would n't have to be annoying you when you 're … well , when you 've had a drink I suppose . ’ |
| 8 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 9 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 10 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 11 | Whatever I learnt , I shared with Joe , not , I 'm afraid , so that he would be more educated , but so that I would be less ashamed of him in front of Estella . |
| 12 | I removed my flake-laden pom-pom inside , dashed it on my knee , and stayed bare-headed a while , so that I would n't appear like a nut bent on an assassination mission . |
| 13 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 14 | Ready for the season so that I would n't have to buy a lot of things when you were busy . |
| 15 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 16 | The girls started to arrive and I looked busy with a pile of papers so that I would n't have to talk to them . |
| 17 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 18 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 19 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
| 20 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |