Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 10 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 11 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 12 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 13 | Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious . |
| 14 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 15 | And so therefore if anybody has amendments that they wish to make to the deliverance as it is , we will take them if necessary one by one and vote for them as they are presented to us , and then we 'll come to any other counter motions that may be on hand . |
| 16 | Now the complaint about sports is simply that other countries put more central and local government money into sport and into facilities , into training , into stadia and so on that we do . |
| 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 | ‘ Since the situation is unavoidable I suggest that now you 're better you make yourself as useful as possible , preparing meals and so on while I get on with my work . |
| 19 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
| 20 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 21 | Erm one of the best known commentators on the American president , a man called Richard Newstat er who 's occasionally known as Mr Williams because he 's married to er Shirley Williams a clapped-out Social Democratic politician of er yesteryear , erm Richard Newstat once said , well once said many things but er on this particular occasion said that er if you want to know what presidential power is , it is simply the power to persuade and that er when you look for er an American president what you need to look for er is not somebody who is clear minded , far sighted and so on but you need somebody who has the capacity the skill , the talent , to persuade other people to do what he wants them to do . |
| 22 | He 's tried direct flights and so on but he thought four hundred pounds , four hundred and fifty was a bit much although he 'll get the villa so cheaply . |
| 23 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 24 | You simply take the marginal cost OA of the first inch , then add the marginal cost of the second inch , and so on till you get to the existing size S 1 . |
| 25 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 26 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 27 | Mr Walker said : ‘ Tyne Tees wanted a different starting time in order to show highlights during or after the European game but by that time Boro had made arrangements for policing and so on and they refused the request . |
| 28 | forgive me Mr if I want to ask somebody some questions about the brochure and er the layout and so on and I find out Counsel has n't , I gather from Mr that Mr would be the person I ought to ask , is that right ? |
| 29 | not to leave our handbags er in the car , not to leave the windows open and so on and I think that really dodges the issue of why people commit criminal acts . |
| 30 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |