Example sentences of "[conj] so [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's still an hour or so to go before we 're due to dock . |
| 2 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 3 | Said I can guarantee that you 'll have it in a week or so said that she got to have it |
| 4 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 5 | His head was long and bony , and so shaped that you could see all the contours of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 6 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 7 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 8 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 9 | Below was a boot containing a folding camp bed of polished steel ‘ of commodious size with a tester-top and on castors ’ and so constructed that it ‘ could be folded up in a minute . ’ |
| 10 | She went from being childish , not caring for social conventions and so spoilt that she could follow any whim she liked , to realising how nai ‘ 3vely and shameful her ‘ rebellion ’ really was . |
| 11 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 12 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 13 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |
| 14 | But still coming in , and so gone that he did not feel the punches . |
| 15 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |
| 16 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 17 | Carloman , however had been born after Pepin had been crowned king in his own right and so considered that he held a superior claim to kingship . |
| 18 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 19 | Or are they to be softly stretched and so angled that they curve upwards and over before descending silently as in Fokine 's Les Sylphides ? |
| 20 | Little Gibson , 29 , and so forgotten that he trains alone , was once part of Terry Phelan 's £2.3 million move to Manchester City . |
| 21 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 22 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |