Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months or so ago nobody thought this could possibly happen . |
| 2 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 3 | I did n't know any details , but a month or so ago I had a row with my uncle and he said then that I must n't count on anything from him ; if I did I 'd be disappointed . ’ |
| 4 | When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person . |
| 5 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 6 | No , what I mean is er the new one sort of thing , the new Cher , it 's in the top thirty , it was about number three a month about a month or so ago I did n't know there was anything else |
| 7 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 8 | But at Lambeth Infirmary a week or so later they removed the bandages from his face . |
| 9 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 10 | Yet a week or so later she surprised Wilson by returning to this topic again , beginning , ‘ Wilson , you remember the Ogilvys ? ’ |
| 11 | A minute or so later she had been connected and the reservations clerk was asking for details of her ticket . |
| 12 | An hour or so later he settled in the jockeys changing room to watch the National , his father having travelled to Liverpool to saddle Foinavon and Buckingham having been booked to ride . |
| 13 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 14 | An hour or so later I saw my mother 's green Metro , just about to turn out of the drive-way of Hamish and Tone 's house . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans . |
| 16 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 17 | And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do |
| 18 | They seem delighted and although so far we have only had telephone contact , I feel sure they will be able to drive their ‘ new ’ acquisition for many years to come . |
| 19 | She 'd always had boyfriends , although so far she had n't been tempted to engage in any serious commitment . |
| 20 | What is serious about so much school work generally is that so frequently it seems to fail to have any deep effect on life outside the classroom . |
| 21 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 22 | Why is it that so often we think of pork as suitable only for roasting , for chops or sausages ? |
| 23 | The drawback of employment in central and local government , to some minds , is that so often you fail to see any outcome to your work . |
| 24 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 25 | Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , said : ‘ I am convinced that so far we have agreed on effective co-operation in order to resolve the problem by joint effort . |
| 26 | The way that so far we have approached the matter has been highly theoretical . |
| 27 | He reminded me that I 'd predicted many , many things over the years and that so far nothing had come to anything apart from purely coincidental moves . |
| 28 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 29 | Detectives admit that so far they do n't have a motive for the killing . |
| 30 | She gave a cool glance in return , cautiously pleased that so far she had betrayed nothing of her reaction at standing so close to him . |