Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 2 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 3 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 4 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 5 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 6 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Upon the upper surface of this deposit , stalagmitic floors formed , and continued to do so intermittently and in different parts of the cave , until a further inflow of material entered the cave between 80,000 and 30,000 years ago . |
| 8 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Item — The most mysterious aspect of this is that there is no evidence that when the King came to the Council meeting he intended to leave but decided to do so there and then . |
| 10 | We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money , retain our record of innovation and flexibility , keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials , methods and people in the industry . |