Example sentences of "[coord] so [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On hearing about our plans for a summer course at Green Park in 1982 some 30 or so showed a positive interest in attending . |
| 2 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 3 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 4 | I certainly had had enough and so had the poor lady , judging by her slight breathlessness , flushed cheeks and waving handkerchief . |
| 5 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 6 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 7 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 8 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
| 9 | And so began the brutal battle for power between the new , clan-dominated forces of General Mohamed Farah Aideed and his rival Mohamed Ali Mahdi . |
| 10 | The following day the Squadron was told that it was to transfer to pinpoint daylight bombing , and so began an intensive training period of low level flying and combing , although night ops and a day anti-shipping role continued . |
| 11 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 12 | He saw that he had no chance of winning over the militants , and so abandoned the conventional view that a political settlement was essential . |
| 13 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 14 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 15 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 16 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 17 | ‘ The fellow who stayed with me went back and so did the other squire . |
| 18 | Boy looked at the pictures of the moustached and uniformed characters with some relish ; but he could n't finish the text , and so missed the single paragraph that Mother had circled in black ink . |
| 19 | This happened to many punters who shorted bank stocks last year just as the Federal Reserve eased interest rates and so triggered a sharp rally in bank share prices . |
| 20 | Kodak 's entry into the instant camera business increased the business of Polaroid because Kodak had to advertise its way in and so increased the total market . |
| 21 | The domain-specific dictionaries made a significant contribution to each respective domain-specific text , but so did the general dictionary . |