Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] so [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legal defence was that a civil servant can pass on information if it is in the interests of the state so to do . |
| 2 | Er , assisted places in playgroups with a wider scope , now in other words , you do n't have to be at the end of the line so to speak , you can have help on , er , a much softer criteria . |
| 3 | One has to read all this special pleading against the light so to speak to see what was actually happening in day-to-day practice . |
| 4 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 5 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 6 | In fact technically I ought to have someone else here as well , but I thought that as the sergeant knew the facts of the enquiry ( in fact he was instrumental in getting the information we 'd like to question you about ) , it would keep it in the family so to speak if he acted as my amanuensis , that 's the word , is n't it , Sergeant Pascoe ? ’ |
| 7 | I expect it comes naturally to you , being in the business so to speak . |
| 8 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 9 | but the brochure would still be on the desk so to speak of the sales office |
| 10 | When the ship was swinging round , they 'd go down the river , th that here rope was still on the bollard so to throw it off |
| 11 | On the application so to vary the implied undertaking , the applicants undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against the applicants by the two reinstated officers , and on the question of the effect of public interest immunity : — |
| 12 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |