Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 2 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 3 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 4 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 5 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 6 | Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers . |
| 7 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 8 | If it 's something you want the police there to deal with quite quickly and if , if they waited an hour or so and the police did n't come then could n't deal with it . |
| 9 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 10 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’ |
| 12 | But yo you come for an hour or so and then , tha that 'll be enough |
| 13 | But , you know she just puts it on , she does n't want to do any thing for a hour or so and just sit and recover . |
| 14 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 15 | If you wish to increase your writing speed , begin with sessions of two minutes or so and build up gradually . |
| 16 | They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital . |
| 17 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 18 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
| 19 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 20 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 21 | Terry became Personnel and Training Officer at Wembley after 18 months or so and two years later he moved to Birmingham as Assistant Company Secretary of Johnson Matthey 's UK jewellery companies . |
| 22 | of having a vote and so and so gets no |
| 23 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 24 | To my disbelief I felt a resistance for a second or so and the rod sprung back over my shoulder . |
| 25 | And erm maybe have a look through erm some of the erm well there 's a file on social work is n't there and all the stuff about the qualifications , and get some of the prospectuses and so and |
| 26 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 27 | Erm wh what I would suggest is the three that are on the group and if John 's going to be off maybe somebody else from NALGO would , would er step in to the group , get together over the next two weeks or so and er try to jointly produce a Northumberland newsletter ? |
| 28 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 29 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 30 | A house of this size could take two men six months to thatch , and it might - need to be re-ridged every five years or so and re-thatched every twenty to thirty years . |