Example sentences of "[conj] [art] so [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	Bob Cratchit , now married with three children , is on such low pay that every so often he considers applying for family income supplement to help out his hard-pressed family .
2	Wickrithe was only two hours away by car , and every so often they drove down to spend an afternoon with Gran ; but usually Adam was nowhere to be seen .
3	The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer .
4	And every so often they kept coming up , everything alright ?
5	He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours .
6	She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour .
7	Norman said : ‘ I could hear everyone and every so often I would try to speak out of force of habit , but nothing came out . ’
8	We can study files for decades , but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre : the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report .
9	But every so often I go a bit crazy and hit a wall or go out and start drinking , but that sort of thing does n't worry me very much .
10	‘ Miss Maxwell was perfectly normal in her behaviour at school — except that she was perhaps too much the model student — but every so often she would disappear , usually for about three days , once for a whole week .
11	Arghatun was speaking at considerable length , but every so often he paused and the man who sat on the tail of the cart asked what appeared to be a series of questions .

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