Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 2 | By the end of 1982 , about 1000 effluent licences were granted , leaving 600 or so still in the hands of local authorities . |
| 3 | Masud Hoghughi , director of Aycliffe children 's centre , said : ‘ It is most regrettable that so long after the Children Act this ambiguity continues . |
| 4 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 5 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 6 | Horns in D sounds whereas the same passage for horns in E ♭ would sound and so on through the keys . |
| 7 | Nice , if thoroughly upper-crust ( very nice quality of reproduction and form ) rural pictures of pheasants and so on around the walls , plus antique tables and chairs bought by along with all the modern up-to-the-minute equipment such as Compact disc music players and a facsimile machine ( which transmits pages of written material verbatim and as sent by the telephone wires ) . |
| 8 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 9 | She rubbed on face cream , grimaced at her adorable lines and so together through the fields in the morning-o ! |
| 10 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 11 | Conversation , so he told me , as so often at the Mansions , was about Rose Macaulay . |