Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 2 | There 's still an hour or so to go before we 're due to dock . |
| 3 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 4 | Give me an hour or so to unwind . ’ |
| 5 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 6 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 7 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 8 | The temperature should be in the 77–80°s ; F range for general maintenance , raised by a degree or so to promote spawning when the fish are ripe — assuming any trigger is needed . |
| 9 | The count of Toulouse was present to answer charges of heresy and so to protect himself and his lands against Simon de Montfort . |
| 10 | In their initiation into both the craft and culture of pedagogy , it is in the interests of novice teachers to conform in order to place their relations with pupils and fellow teachers on a secure base and so to get established in their role . |
| 11 | Launched from ML 102 , the two raiders had a mile or so to paddle on a compass course through choppy water into the harbour where , as the canoe surged on the swell alongside a large ship , they reached down underwater to fix their eight limpet mines . |
| 12 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 13 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 14 | Sprinkle the gelatine onto the boiling water in a small bowl and stir well — then leave for a minute or so to dissolve . |
| 15 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 16 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 17 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I doubt if I had the necessary day or so to spare . |
| 20 | mid next week and then give you a day or so to look at it . |
| 21 | Take a day or so to recite . ’ |
| 22 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 23 | They were part of the Cicero Club , a society which met once a month or so to discuss famous unsolved mysteries . |
| 24 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 25 | The adverse act required under Morris did not mean that the prosecution had to prove that the appropriation was not done with the authority of the owner because so to hold was inconsistent with Lawrence . |
| 26 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 27 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 28 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 29 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 30 | Here the object of make is felt to be completely under the sway of the subject and so to have no initiative of its own : the causal agent brings about a change in this object in an immediate fashion without any room for a condition–consequence or stimulus–reaction relationship . |