Example sentences of "[coord] so [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 2 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 3 | ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks . |
| 4 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Personal reasons , or so she says . |
| 6 | She 's moving in with Celia Bond at the end of the month — or so she says . |
| 7 | She had a family of four , and for the past ten years or so she has worked voluntarily at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 8 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 9 | They are to serve as long as the war lasts , and a month on top of that , they are to serve in Scotland only ’ — someone cheered — ‘ or so it says , and you can ask Widow McCulloch , or Widow McGregor , if they have heard that anywhere before . |
| 10 | or so it says here , so I say . |
| 11 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 12 | Or so it appears from the valuable memoirs of Mrs Belloc Lowndes , in chapter nine of her Merry Wives of Westminster : |
| 13 | Or so it claims . |
| 14 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 15 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 16 | See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King . |
| 17 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 18 | Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems . |
| 19 | With legs stretched out and with no space to flex a muscle — or so it seems to the beginner — a sneeze might unbalance the boat . |
| 20 | And he won , or so it seems , benign neutrality from the PDS and the Northern League by promising to stake his government 's survival on the swift approval of electoral reform . |
| 21 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 22 | A more effective argument , on the other hand , can ( or so it seems ) be constructed in support of the materialist theory . |
| 23 | Within those five years desktop publishing has , or so it seems , become an integrated part of the electronic office . |
| 24 | Trudging from one grey day into another , on and on , until at last it does n't matter any more , or so it seems . |
| 25 | Johnson considered as many aspects of life here as he could possibly think of , or so it seems : and Boswell recorded Johnson with similar energy . |
| 26 | Or so it seems , anyway . |
| 27 | The forgotten people , or so it seems . |
| 28 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 29 | Over the past 15 years or so it has spread through Russia and then to Western Europe . |
| 30 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |