Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 2 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 3 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 4 | When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person . |
| 5 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 6 | If asked 10 years or so ago I would have said Pseudotropheus elegans , Ps. livingstonii , Ps. lanisticola , and an undescribed species ( still ) known as Ps. ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ . |
| 7 | I did n't know any details , but a month or so ago I had a row with my uncle and he said then that I must n't count on anything from him ; if I did I 'd be disappointed . ’ |
| 8 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 9 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 10 | No , what I mean is er the new one sort of thing , the new Cher , it 's in the top thirty , it was about number three a month about a month or so ago I did n't know there was anything else |
| 11 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
| 12 | But at Lambeth Infirmary a week or so later they removed the bandages from his face . |
| 13 | Yet a week or so later she surprised Wilson by returning to this topic again , beginning , ‘ Wilson , you remember the Ogilvys ? ’ |
| 14 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 15 | A minute or so later she had been connected and the reservations clerk was asking for details of her ticket . |
| 16 | A second or so later she was giving herself a mental shake and opening her eyes again . |
| 17 | An hour or so later he settled in the jockeys changing room to watch the National , his father having travelled to Liverpool to saddle Foinavon and Buckingham having been booked to ride . |
| 18 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 19 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 20 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 21 | An hour or so later I was beginning to feel proud of our levels of determination and achievement as we topped out over the last sand dune , then my heart sank into my boots ! |
| 22 | I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans . |
| 23 | An hour or so later I saw my mother 's green Metro , just about to turn out of the drive-way of Hamish and Tone 's house . |
| 24 | And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do |
| 25 | If you have travelled in an aeroplane at 35 000 feet or so then you will have noticed that the sky looks a much darker blue than at sea-level . |
| 26 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 27 | A year or so back I found myself sitting next to him , bearded in his old age and wearing plus fours , overall resembling a successful if slightly barmy countryman , at a ghastly new play at the Almeida . |
| 28 | With the lucrative business contracts that used to keep the generals happy being diverted to Mr Suharto 's children , his military power-base is developing cracks , although so far they are barely perceptible . |
| 29 | They seem delighted and although so far we have only had telephone contact , I feel sure they will be able to drive their ‘ new ’ acquisition for many years to come . |
| 30 | She 'd always had boyfriends , although so far she had n't been tempted to engage in any serious commitment . |