Example sentences of "so [conj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 2 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 3 | Songs about sex were often very explicit-far more so than would be acceptable in many other cultures . |
| 4 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 5 | The majority further contend that a wife who has reported a rape by her husband to the police may subsequently regret having done so and may wish to be reconciled with him . |
| 6 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 7 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 8 | Even though the Government may be afraid to say what has been paid for the companies , we shall do so and will be able to compare the selling price with the asset stripping price when that process is engaged in . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 10 | To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise . |
| 11 | Just as , for the Aristotelians , knowledge or scientia has to do with necessities , with what must be so and can not be otherwise , so , for Locke , ‘ knowledge ’ is universal and certain . |
| 12 | I do n't need to copy it down when initially build it but er I might just put a little bit of extra work in I can make so and can copy it down . |
| 13 | This will no doubt be welcome , but before accepting it the company should be sure that it is aware of all the consequences of doing so and can handle them . |
| 14 | This will no doubt be welcome , but before accepting it the company should be sure that it is aware of all the consequences of doing so and can handle them . |
| 15 | They can not do so and should not be asked to try . |
| 16 | He did so but could not get it to work . ’ |