Example sentences of "so that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 2 | The Fen country around Coton was very flat , with water-filled dykes instead of hedges , and few trees , so that one could see long distances without the view being obstructed — ‘ right to the horizon , ’ Cheryl reported excitedly to her mummy in one of her letters home . |
| 3 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 4 | Burns triumphantly hijacks this image by extending the golden substance to the borders of manhood — ‘ a man 's a man for a ’ that' , so that one could properly ask for ‘ one man , one vote ’ . |
| 5 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 6 | For that matter , a computer catalogue could relate different demands together , so that one could find out what was in the collection in tape-slide format on the emigration of Cornish tin-miners to southern Wisconsin in the nineteenth century , suitable for advanced students in the sixth form ( ages 17–18 ) . |
| 7 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 8 | There was no distraction other than a poignant roll of rags in which a baglady scuffled , and snow fell so that one could almost smell the cold . |
| 9 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 10 | Erm and er it was er it was a ramp basically , er up here , so that one could run straight off that ramp , onto this flat truck . |
| 11 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 12 | You had to go to a modelling school where you learnt how to get in and out of cars with your legs just so , so that nobody could see your knickers . |
| 13 | He arrived in a dark suit and a black shirt buttoned down over his dog collar and kept his hands folded so that nobody could see if he had on a ring at all , let alone one like a winegum . |
| 14 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 15 | It 's so that nobody could see them . |
| 16 | But we did n't clean our chalets so that nobody could stay in ! |
| 17 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 18 | Under modus , however , property was left so that something could be done ; since the bequest was not conditional on it , its payment was due independently of whether the intended thing was done or not . |
| 19 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 20 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 21 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 22 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 23 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 24 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 25 | As usual when we entered a church together , I dipped my finger in the holy water and gave you a drop from my fingertips , so that we could cross ourselves together , like a novio and novia . |
| 26 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 27 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 28 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 29 | Then we 'd again pace 100 yards , counting the paces and the time it took , so that we could do dead reckoning on our march in . |
| 30 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |