Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too .
2 This is lost soon after laying commences in April or early May — which is a shame , because most people visit the sea-bird colonies in summer , and so rarely see a shag in all its glory .
3 You can freeze a frame , rewind , replay and so on to reinforce a point .
4 The Vicar of Bistre , the Rev Jason Kennett-Orpwood , said yesterday : ‘ We 've now written to the whole council , and so too have a lot of the parishioners , to ask it to reconsider .
5 Problems may still remain , but so also does a landscape and people that make a visit something to savour .
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