Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 2 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 3 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 4 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 5 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 6 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 7 | Arrange the right papers for me at the Legation , travelling money and so on and I 'll come the low-risk way by rail . |
| 8 | Now move to the next point and join it up to every other point and so on until your pattern is complete . |
| 9 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 10 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 11 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 12 | She smiled , ‘ Do n't forget now , you 're my cousin from Neath come to help with the business , you 're big like my dad , could easily be his nephew and so long as you do n't open your mouth , it should be all right . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 14 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 15 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |
| 17 | You pick up the warning signs from the news and so on before you get the official warning to go , but it 's still short notice . |
| 18 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 19 | So you will spell A C E and the fourth card will be an ace and so on until you only have the king left in your hand . |
| 20 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 21 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 22 | Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required . |
| 23 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 24 | She 's erm she 's a waitress in Chester so it can shows you how much cross section we 've got and erm she said her and her boyfriend was coming up to Blaenau to be on the picket line and so on and we were quite friendly with her . |
| 25 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 26 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 27 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 28 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 29 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 30 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |