Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar sort of guitar work apparently or so they tell me . |
| 2 | Not that I can see much after six o'clock or so , but there you are , we all have our little crosses . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll buy a guide book , go see some stuff , kill a couple of hours while you go plop yourself down somewhere cool and shady and have a beer or whatever this season 's trendy drink is , and then we 'll meet at six o'clock or so , ride back to the palace together , and tell Anna we had an absolutely smashing day . ’ |
| 4 | But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ? |
| 5 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 6 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 7 | The bonanza went on until the church thought enough was enough and so on a Sunday evening in August , a concerted effort was made and strong sermons were preached from every pulpit against bee wine and its evil effects . |
| 8 | Fish can not swim fast enough for long enough and so can not porpoise — but they do not need to surface for air and so can swim at depth to reduce drag . |
| 9 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 10 | Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest . |
| 11 | The only evening dress she had brought with her was the colour of well-polished copper , which added a little colour to her pale complexion , but it was not going to be warm enough and so she took the mink that had been part of her trousseau from the wardrobe and slung it around her shoulders . |
| 12 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 13 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 14 | His surroundings were so suddenly and so totally novel . |
| 15 | ‘ Losing Danny so suddenly and so pointlessly has been terrible . |
| 16 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 17 | The toes pointed slightly outwards and so did the shoes , a pair of the finest winkle-pickers that ever threaded the eye of a needle . |
| 18 | For example if you feel that " Easy pack disposal " is the key benefit of the new Arelon WDG formulation place a1 in the box opposite and so on . |
| 19 | There is no nucleus consisting of two protons alone and so no energy can be liberated by a pair of protons making such an object . |
| 20 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 21 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 22 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 23 | You ca n't make chemistry happen , you ca n't say : ‘ You and you are going to be so and so . ’ |
| 24 | One would say : ‘ Comrade so and so , ’ and their poor victim would turn white and he would have to go with them and perhaps we never saw him again . |
| 25 | Supposing you knew of somebody you thought , ‘ So and so 'll not be here long ’ , you 'd get a policy on 'em . |
| 26 | With all the confidence of youth , he had handbills printed that T. Sparks would be opening a Gentlemen 's Hairdressing Saloon at Number so and so North Street . |
| 27 | A couple of hours later , when the awkwardnesses had receded and giggling and fidgeting had given way to my acceptance as part of the furniture , they were engaged in an enthusiastic frank exchange about the qualities of teachers whom they had liked , whose lessons they had enjoyed and for whom they were prepared to concede the comment : ‘ Mr So and So was decent — yeah , well decent , were n't he Sue ? ’ |
| 28 | you are rebuked by an ‘ authority figure ’ ( ‘ You should not/ought not/must not do so and so . ’ ) . |
| 29 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |
| 30 | They 're rolling the joint and it 's … did you hear the one about … so and so 's mate who scored some really good stuff from some new dealer somewhere . |