Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 2 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
| 3 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 4 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
| 5 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 6 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 7 | Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line . |
| 8 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |