Example sentences of "and so [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 2 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 3 | The Sergeant , suspecting that the enemy infantry was hiding in the mist-skeined wheat field , turned his horse of the lane , forced it through a ditch and so up into the wheat . |
| 4 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 5 | The guiding principle must be that the overall value or interest of the essay lies in how its combination of observation and argument leads towards more general statements , and so away from the particularity of autobiography and personal impression . |
| 6 | We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible . |
| 7 | Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government . |
| 8 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 9 | At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view . |
| 10 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 11 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 12 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 13 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 14 | Would you really , and think carefully about this , trust all your personal information ; diary , telephone list and so on to the memory of that recalcitrant computer on your office desk ? |
| 15 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 16 | The next two rows are accessed from a portside door , the next two from starboard , and so on along the aeroplane , except that the last row has a door to itself . |
| 17 | Because , out of her daughter-in-law and so on down the line , comes David , and then comes Jesus Christ . |
| 18 | And so too with the inside centre and so on across the field . |
| 19 | In the first place you 've got to type all those numbers , names and so on into the thing before it becomes of any real use . |
| 20 | The rhyme Willie , Willie , Harry , Stee , Harry , Dick , John , Harry three ( with many more immortal lines to follow ) can be translated into the more dignified list : William I , William II , Henry I , Stephen , Henry II , Richard I , John , Henry III — and so on through the Plantagenets and Tudors . |
| 21 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 22 | Horns in D sounds whereas the same passage for horns in E ♭ would sound and so on through the keys . |
| 23 | Gib Sparling had his ham and eggs , and Scruffy the pleasure of watching somebody else peel spuds ; Dutch his pea soup thick enough to skate on , and Tex his coffee and bed with clean white sheets ; and so on through the list . |
| 24 | And so on through the book . |
| 25 | The twenty-third was allotted to Jupiter , the twenty-fourth to Mars , and the first of the next day to the sun , which thus ruled Sunday , and so on through the week . |
| 26 | Move on to the next question , and so on through the paper . |
| 27 | But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself . |
| 28 | Erm all I can say is the county council economic development people are are there on the ground with their helicopters and the cameras when Kimberley Clarke comes in or the Central Science Laboratory and the car people and so on of the moment . |
| 29 | ( a ) Planning with ‘ precise ’ goals can be likened to the Tour de France in which the participants aim for A , move on to B and so on until the end is reached . |
| 30 | A few bloodied survivors , swearing that they , and their children , and their children 's children , and so on until the end of the world , would live and die with one ambition burning in their hearts : the prevention of another such apocalypse . |