Example sentences of "[conj] so [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 2 | ‘ Open it , or so help me , I 'll — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 4 | Give it to me , Lori , or so help me I will go to the police and let you stew in your own juice . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 6 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 7 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 8 | The stuff was either rubbish , or twee , or so boring it made you want to puke . |
| 9 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 10 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 11 | Only thirty yards or so separated them , when Curtis saw the Prophet lift a hand from the steering wheel and knock the rear-view mirror out of alignment to avoid being blinded by the glare . |
| 12 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 13 | That 's why er people who come to our company and then after a year or so think they can go away and do this on their own , ca n't do it . |
| 14 | Extending the term by five years or so means you have to pay out less each month . |
| 15 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 16 | She stared into his eyes , those steady grey eyes that so fascinated her . |
| 17 | Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he could n't quite put his finger on it . |
| 18 | So erm and the other thing was the erm the maternity bill er what is the other one that so interests me that , I 've got my two favourites , erm and that is the cervical , the cancer smear test . |
| 19 | He kept thinking of Lucky Lady Firelight and himself aboard , constraining that nervous power that so intrigued him . |
| 20 | As one critic caustically observed , these early armchair anthropologists , who seldom had any direct acquaintance with the tribal customs that so intrigued them , appeared to be only interested in the living in order to better understand the dead . |
| 21 | As an absolute last resort , rather than manhandle a horse and make it more fearful , and so teach it to be always difficult in a similar situation , it is better to tranquillise the horse . |
| 22 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 23 | If part of the credit for a breakthrough could be claimed by Mr Hussein , and so induce him to pull his army out of Kuwait , why not solve two problems in a single bloodless stroke ? |
| 24 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 25 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 26 | There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end . |
| 27 | Dzerzhinsky wrote that the swifter exchange of goods would help to reduce taxes levied on the peasants and so mollify them and speed up the realization of smychka between town and country ; but towards the end of the year he admitted in a resigned tone : ‘ Can such a huge enterprise like transport really change in a moment , can people really be regenerated at once ? |
| 28 | Gradually children will come to understand them in various contexts and so use them in their own play . |
| 29 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 30 | " Codle them green , and boil them up with sugar , being preserved put them into the cream strain 'd or whole scrape sugar on them , and so serve them cold in boil 'd or raw cream . |