Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also Tore-Andre Flo — the young brother of Jostein Flo is supposed to train for a week or two at Sheff Utd ; but this is just a training stay — nothing to do with Sheff Utd offering him a contract or so . |
| 2 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 3 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 4 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 5 | Those are large one day meetings for school children at fourth form level or so . |
| 6 | When the water has almost filled the hole , to perhaps a foot or so below the top , there is an audible pause in the proceedings . |
| 7 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 8 | He watched her fumble for an intentionally long time in her handbag for the means of lighting the Turkish cigarette she held aloft in her left hand , only a foot or so away from Mark 's head . |
| 9 | The hole extended a foot or so above the level of the ceiling , and then ended . |
| 10 | If you want more , go inland ; if you can get by with less , stay in the city ; if you do n't need more than a square foot or so , go to the islands . |
| 11 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 12 | He shrank back fearfully as the horns scythed back and forth among the fragile trees , only a foot or so from his vulnerable body . |
| 13 | Once you are very close , within a foot or so , simply extend your last hole forward until the ferret is in sight . |
| 14 | I say astride , because this ridge , officially called Black Hill but known as the Cat 's Back by the locals , is truly a razorback , narrowing to a foot or so wide in places . |
| 15 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 16 | On its summit , he excavates a bowl a foot or so deep . |
| 17 | To get what they need , they cut down saplings and even trees with trunks a foot or so in diameter , gnawing through the wood with their chisel teeth . |
| 18 | It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea . |
| 19 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 20 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 21 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 22 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 23 | Dreadnought 's deck was still a foot or so above the tide . |
| 24 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 25 | She pretended to be engrossed in exploring the room , and managed to keep a foot or so away from him as he followed , making her uncomfortably aware of the wall of his body close behind her while she ran her hands over the antique furniture with an assumed interest . |
| 26 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 27 | The Popi is well situated for everything — it 's in the middle of the harbour area of Kos , only a kilometre or so away from the early nightlife and bars and very close to the late night discos . |
| 28 | According to the proximity readout , the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 29 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 30 | A long kilometre or so later , I entered the city 's outskirts . |