Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 2 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 3 | Allow the heaterstat to adjust for an hour or so then turn everything on . |
| 4 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 5 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 6 | You invented that so where do you put you place U five times whatever U |
| 7 | If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ? |
| 8 | So Marion , back on the boards after the death of her boring solicitor husband some years ago , compressed her lips and maintained as well as possible the stately calm that so well suited her part as the Balkan Countess whose family jewels were stolen in this season 's Salt and Pepper offering ( Robson the butler was the master crook , in league with the Countess 's French maid ) . |
| 9 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 10 | As a teen-ager , he took daily subway trips to the Metropolitan Museum to study the painted portraits that so greatly influenced his photographic style . |
| 11 | Shaw 's wit and good humour are at their most engaging in this play , his analysis of language and class characteristically acute , and there is little of the wilful perversity that so often mars his drama . |
| 12 | The Right to Know Bill , which I am introducing in the House of Commons , would lift the blanket of official secrecy that so often keeps us in the dark . |
| 13 | Foucault identifies three reasons : first of all the ever-increasing importance of technology , secondly the place of rationalism in the optimism attached to the notion of ‘ revolution ’ — as well as in the despotism that so often followed its realization — and thirdly : |
| 14 | There has got to be some genuine changes in our erm willingness to work hard at our family life and not to give in easily at the challenges that so often break our homes up . |
| 15 | It seems that children have not yet absorbed the fears , doubts and confusions that so often beset us as adults . |
| 16 | What is the poison ivy that so jealously guards our dark fortress ? |
| 17 | Baby hedgehogs do not have the spines that so readily identify their parents , but these soon start to grow . |
| 18 | To experience the true power of prayer , we need to do away with the indifference and moral complacency that so readily chill our feelings for God . |
| 19 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 20 | Opposition to the deal built up because of fears that this plutonium would free US stocks for use in its weapons programme and so indirectly help US weapons expansion . |
| 21 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 22 | Yes and so where did you go ? |
| 23 | And this is the great chamber , and this is where their tour ends I think if we just go back if we go straight back into the place we started , and so just finish it off , then I must I must finish off as well . |
| 24 | In my view the role of the three witches in this play , were to bring to the surface of Macbeth 's character his ambition , and so eventually cause his downfall . |
| 25 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 26 | Ianthe thought the word ‘ cocktails ’ a little old-fashioned , and so evidently did her aunt , who protested that everyone drank whisky or gin and tonic now . |
| 27 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 28 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 29 | We do n't need to see er leaflets and so on urging us into merger before they 're actually ready to take place from the membership itself . |
| 30 | One possibility is to conduct monetary and budgetary policies in such a way as to maintain a steadily expanding flow of total money expenditure on the products of labour , and so on labour itself . |