Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 2 | Why was Edward the black prince so called ? |
| 3 | Why was Edward the Black Prince so called ? |
| 4 | In fact as discount factors tend to unity so does the temporary reputation become permanent . |
| 5 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 6 | On Sheet 145 there is a short stretch of lane so described immediately south of Banbury . |
| 7 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 8 | If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities . |
| 9 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 10 | With Tyson gone and Tucker 's prominence chequered in the continuing row over who Lewis should fight first , King has no charismatic heavyweight to bring in big money so sees Chavez as his passport into Mexico , where the fighter is viewed almost as a God and where vast live gates and previously untapped pay-per-view television income looms large . |
| 11 | In the cinema , another growth medium inter-war , Hollywood money so dominated British film production that the government introduced protectionist policies . |
| 12 | d ) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment . |
| 13 | Resolved , That , for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Traffic Calming Bill , it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment . |
| 14 | It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid . |
| 15 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 16 | Providing money is generally acceptable , a person will take it in exchange for goods and services he sells since no difficulty will be encountered in using the money so acquired to purchase other goods and services desired . |
| 17 | ‘ An estate agent submitted a gadget he had invented years before which was sitting up in his loft , but he needed the money so tried his luck and sent it in . ’ |
| 18 | It can access private and company bank details , weather information , news , holiday bargains and even , should the user so wish , offer a local phone number for Madame Fifi Le Whiplash ( which explains a lot of those funny adverts you see on the Peripherique these days ) . |
| 19 | The second is whether , if reference to such materials would otherwise be appropriate , it would contravene article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 or Parliamentary privilege so to do . |
| 20 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 21 | ‘ As indicated in the November 1983 statement , the setting of the first review date under these arrangements will enable a life sentence prisoner to be released within three years of that date if the Parole Board so recommends , subject to the policy announced in reply to a question by the then Rt . |
| 22 | Now he is poised here in Paris , sipping a champagne so dry it tastes like flint , on the brink of old age . |
| 23 | Ten years ago yesterday British Rail signed a million-pound contract so work could start on repairing the Victorian building 's roof . |
| 24 | This should ideally be dealt with under the insurance provisions , but should it appear in the provisos , the tenant should ensure that it is a bilateral right and that in any event the landlord shall not be permitted to terminate the lease until it has taken all reasonable measures to procure the rebuilding or reinstatement of the centre or the part so destroyed or damaged ( as appropriate ) . |
| 25 | Hattie Jacques was the matron , a part so suited to her size and manner that the very occupation of hospital head nurse might have been created for her , let alone the role in ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 26 | ( 4 ) While this section applies to any premises , then for purposes other than those mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , or in parts of the premises other than the part so mentioned , the permitted hours shall be the same as if this section did not apply to the premises . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) While this section applies to any premises , then for purposes other than those mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , or in parts of the premises other than the part so mentioned , the permitted hours shall be the same as if this section did not apply to the premises . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) While this section applies to any premises , then for purposes other than those mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , or in parts of the premises other than the part so mentioned , or except as otherwise provided by this Act , there shall be no permitted hours on Sundays . |
| 29 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 30 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |