Example sentences of "so [pron] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smile and be pleasant , make your way through the ballroom so everyone can see you . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll do my make-up first , something fairly neutral so I can choose what to wear later . |
| 3 | That 's not too troublesome for me because my wife has an account ( with a different bank ) , so I can sign my cheques over to her . |
| 4 | Please help me up onto your knee so I can pull your hair and punch you in the mouth . " |
| 5 | Come up for God 's sake , Harry , so I can pull you out . |
| 6 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 7 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'll only take hold of this damn bag so I can go I will . |
| 9 | I try to twist my body so I can jab my left elbow in his face . |
| 10 | ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’ |
| 11 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 12 | I 'd be most obliged if you 'd open your door so I can tell you what this is about . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm watching it on television so I can tell you what happens . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So I can tell you that the word is that they have not found what they were looking for . |
| 15 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 16 | ‘ So I can feel your pulse , ’ he said impatiently . |
| 17 | Now jump into bed so I can tuck you in . |
| 18 | ‘ I like a film to have a beginning , a middle and an ending , preferably in that order , so I can follow it , ’ he says , Mortimer 's screenplay knowingly making him paraphrase Godard 's view that a ‘ film must have a beginning , a middle and an ending , not necessarily in that order . ’ |
| 19 | There are ways in which Sylvia still feels implicated in the abuse : she talks of ’ my sexual relationship with my father ’ ; ’ sharing a house and a crime ’ ; and ’ forgiving my father so I can forgive myself ’ . |
| 20 | Does anybody know the FM frequencies for Radio Leeds and Radio Aire , so I can tune my car into them permanently . |
| 21 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 22 | Can someone give me a list of these nicknames so I can know who is being discussed . |
| 23 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |
| 24 | Maybe next time you 'll wear a pink carnation/ so I can recognise you — hooo ! |
| 25 | Please send me a subscription so I can cancel it in disgust . |
| 26 | I 'm really well adjusted so I can let it all hang out . |
| 27 | Eunice : We own this place so I can let you in . |
| 28 | ‘ So I can kiss her , all bare and smooth . ’ |
| 29 | The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on . |
| 30 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |