Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke .
2 Cos a few people are further out than me so cos Angie 's just up the road in Hamworth .
3 I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen .
4 On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious .
5 mm , the thing is though , that was n't a Court hearing yesterday and whatever they say is gon na incriminate them so if they want to ask them questions they 've got ta take them to Court have n't they ?
6 I like the Doc Marten shoes cos they 're hard , that 's the only reason why I like them so if you 're having a fight .
7 Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent .
8 Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House .
9 The reproduction of an historic statue of the Mother of God in the Cathedral , demonstrates a sensitivity to the vibrant traditions of the past , drawing on them so as to enrich ones own faith not only of God 's choice of Our Lady and her example , but also of the many wonderful traditions in the diocese which provides continuity , constantly enriching the present .
10 But those preparing standard assessment tasks and other assessment instruments should consider them so as to minimise bias in the task or context and guard against any preconceptions of assessors ; and any comparison of results between single-sex schools or between those with different ethnic or social class populations should be made in the light of the evidence referred to above .
11 Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership .
12 Thus lawyer C tended not to translate his clients ' chosen outcomes , whereas lawyer B had transformed them so as to facilitate translation .
13 MITI 's approach was to favour several large producers in the manner of an elite squad , and then to encourage rivalry between them so as to avoid the dangers of complacency in single firm monopolies .
14 We were given detailed programmes of work , which included visiting families and working alongside them so as to be able to understand their most pressing difficulties , We would hold discussions about national politics , to look at the lack of civil liberties and to examine how the system of exploitation divides one person from another .
15 Katherine knew each of those stones , each of those flowers intimately-so often had she concentrated on them so as not to cry or react to her mother 's jibes .
16 Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable .
17 But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g .
18 Had this been any other occasion , he would have lowered his head respectfully and more or less closed his eyes , watching Bill Brice out of the corner of them so as to know when to open them again , and murmuring amen where appropriate .
19 We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support .
20 It may be that the oleoresins of the dipterocarps have an effect on the bacteria of the fore-stomach of colobines and it is now necessary to study the interaction of these bacteria with fibre and the wide range of tannins , some of which shield protein from degradation in the fore-stomach , or denature them so as to enhance proteolysis .
21 Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it .
22 If you can not pay them immediately , then you must tell them so when they are instructed in order that they can decline to accept the instructions if they wish .
23 all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class !
24 But if you bothered to ask , anyone in the Anti-Nazi League could have told you so before you got that 50p stuck in your face .
25 Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty .
26 People get to love you and they rely on you so when they need you , you ca n't turn your back on them .
27 Now let me just work through this with you so as er wh you know it 's unfortunate there 's such a lot in these things that er
28 And were they so as individuals ?
29 Right and how much would they so if they if these six swallows are eating sixty
30 Well I got erm and them boards underneath there 's some boards underneath the tram car there was , and they s picked me up you see they so when er there was a crowd outside the chemist , I was in somebody took me inside .
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