Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Strange beds have rarely agreed with me , and after only a short spell of somewhat troubled slumber , I awoke an hour or so ago . |
| 33 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 34 | I saw him an hour or so ago . ’ |
| 35 | Half an hour or so ago . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ And only an hour or so ago , ’ said Leonora wonderingly , ‘ I was thinking you 'd lost interest in me completely . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ So I 'm blindfolded again , taken to this bus stop an hour or so away and when that bus comes I 'm right on it and no mistake . |
| 38 | The whole FI family would stay at the Sheraton in Buenos Aires and the Hilton in Sao Paulo while , between races , a majority of the drivers would take a week 's break at Guaruja on the Brazilian coast near Santos , an hour or so away from the smog-filled city of Sao Paulo . |
| 39 | My mother was heaving and grunting , pushing and breathing , an hour or so away from producing , and attended by both Mrs Clamp and my father , when all three ( or at least two ; I suppose Agnes might have been too preoccupied ) heard frenzied barking and one high , awful scream . |
| 40 | And it 's only an hour or so away , so perhaps you should say that |
| 41 | ‘ Give him an hour or so please , barman . |
| 42 | If you mess up the hour or so afterwards , you no doubt will never want to line up to cover the distance again . |
| 43 | And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do |
| 44 | From one she extracted the brown exercise book , more creased and folded than when she had first set eyes on it a quarter of an hour or so before . |
| 45 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 46 | It 's a great shame that when we are presented with er a problem , when we 're out on site , we actually forget all these things and , and I think that probably it took you an hour or so yesterday to actually recognise , oh yes , I need this and I need this and I need this . |
| 47 | Just an hour or so earlier , many demonstrators had been worried by rumours that the workers ' militia might open fire on the crowds . |
| 48 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 49 | The tender had arrived an hour or so earlier . |
| 50 | Allow the heaterstat to adjust for an hour or so then turn everything on . |
| 51 | long time to remember what 's going to happen in three months ' time , but if it 's something related to an event like Christmas or Easter or something like that , a lot of , a lot of press people are always thinking ‘ What the hell am I going to do that 's different for Christmas or Easter or so forth , ’ so if you do a signal , lay on a special event related to a , a time , in other words a sort of custom , a calendar custom-type event , they 're going to appreciate that notice because they may do some forward planning which would actually help them in that respect . |
| 52 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 53 | Yeah , yeah round about that , maybe a pound or so more . |
| 54 | Just one ground in the entire country does not pay for its police service , and of course that has to be Derby County football club , yet it is the Derbyshire police force that so desperately needs the money . |
| 55 | Foucault identifies three reasons : first of all the ever-increasing importance of technology , secondly the place of rationalism in the optimism attached to the notion of ‘ revolution ’ — as well as in the despotism that so often followed its realization — and thirdly : |
| 56 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 57 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 58 | Thus , the red tape that so often seems to characterize bureaucracies need not be a manifestation of bureaucrats ' love for due process . |
| 59 | In Kuhn 's words ‘ it is hard to find another criterion that so clearly proclaims a field a science ’ . |
| 60 | For instance if you translate ‘ neighbourly behaviour ’ into ‘ altruism ’ or ‘ community ’ you are immediately into all the problems discussed from Tönnies and Durkheim onwards ( i.e. how and why solidarity is built upon kinship , common place , occupation , religion and so on ) . |