Example sentences of "[coord] so [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 2 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 3 | I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby . |
| 4 | Ministerial statements have talked about raising council house rents to ‘ more realistic levels ’ or so that they more nearly approach rents in the private sector . |
| 5 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 6 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 8 | " Do n't know whether he 's showing us the gun because he 's afraid of us , or so that we 'll be afraid of him . " |
| 9 | We should stress that all the six bureau were hand picked , there 's another 30 or so that we could have used and which would have quite probably delivered similar results . |
| 10 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 11 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 12 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 13 | Or you might realise that you want extra money , say , in order to have more free time , or so that you can help a charity , or so that you can travel abroad . |
| 14 | Or you might realise that you want extra money , say , in order to have more free time , or so that you can help a charity , or so that you can travel abroad . |
| 15 | He is just , I suppose , primus inter pares , as a Prime Minister , and erm that 's it is , as we 've both said , the next hundred days or so that you will probably see the real John Major . |
| 16 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 17 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 18 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 19 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 20 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 21 | For a week or so after we moved to Cornwall , I was free to have a great time exploring my new habitat . |
| 22 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 23 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 24 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 25 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 26 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 27 | He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired . |
| 28 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 29 | We were at Speke only three days or so before we got our orders for embarkation . |
| 30 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |