Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 2 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he says , opening the cigarette case to reveal a dozen or so neatly rolled spliffs . |
| 4 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 5 | Or coming back with bruises ; how you suddenly became so very clumsy or so easily marked . |
| 6 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 7 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 8 | At these heights , the first turn or so generally dictates whether you go up and get a climb , or go down for a landing . |
| 9 | Two miles or so past Tintagel the path drops down to Trebawith Strand . |
| 10 | The Israeli Jews in the little kibbutz a mile or so away had never heard of it , but an old Arab woman in a long dark dress picking fruit pointed up a hill when she heard the name and shrugged her shoulders . |
| 11 | They they reduce the rate , and a year or so later bring out a new account paying top rates . |
| 12 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 13 | Worse , and more important , it was an England in which he first ceased to have a role , and then a year or so later acquired a minor and disagreeable one . |
| 14 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 15 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 16 | He had never , he wrote to his superiors , seen an operation so badly planned or so amateurishly organized ; ‘ at the CIA , we really do run a better show than that . ’ |
| 17 | A projected total of around 700,000 for the year is now expected , rather than the one million or so originally hoped for . |
| 18 | Yet for the growth of the later strident and vigorous anticlericalism , the self-consciousness of the laity was a prerequisite , and on a national scale it is by no means certain that this lay identity would have come about so forcefully or so quickly had parliament not been ready to hand as a vehicle in which to rally hostility and an instrument by which to further it . |
| 19 | Allow the heaterstat to adjust for an hour or so then turn everything on . |
| 20 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 21 | I waited a minute or so then got up , leaving my almost clean plate , and went through the house to the lounge , where I could see the path leading away through the dunes towards the bridge . |
| 22 | Beyond , the land was level for thirty yards or so then climbed , slowly at first , then steeply . |
| 23 | It need not , after all , be so abstruse , or so deeply suspect . |
| 24 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 25 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 26 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 27 | At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) . |
| 28 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 29 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |
| 30 | They point out that the recent North American Free Trade Agreement signed by the USA , Canada and Mexico contains more explicit environmental protection language than so far proposed for the MTO . |