Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 . ’
3 When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person .
4 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 .
5 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
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do
11 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 .
12 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 !
13 ‘ My dear girl , you could never in your life look like an old hag , and you seem to forget that so far I 've never seen you at your best .
14 You have to admit that so far I have played Honest Joe .
15 Of course and that w oh I and ti and so anyway I started er work in August nineteen thirteen and er when December came around er there was a strike .
16 And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses .
17 Although I would love to be able to take regular trips to the countryside , I am often unable to indulge myself in this luxury and so instead I choose to walk and cycle through Richmond Park in London .
18 And so therefore I have to ask now is there anybody willing to second Mr 's addendum ?
19 And so therefore I think it would be appropriate er to deliver to you the report of Summers and Partners for your information .
20 Then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that .
21 That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that .
22 I have lived in the same flat for 2½ years , and so far I 've made no new friends at all .
23 I came here with full agreements in order to get this convoy to Cerska and so far I 've been blocked at every turn . ’
24 It was definitely hunger this time — not unnaturally — this was , after all , day three , and so far I 'd eaten precisely half a cut loaf .
25 Consequently , the answer to question 1 is ‘ Yes ’ , and so far I agree with the decision of Morland J.
26 This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment .
27 Breeding Goby Cichlids is not easy — it is one of my ambitions and so far I have been unsuccessful .
28 The body was Henry Clerval 's , and so now I had destroyed another person .
29 And so now I have written it .
30 Could I just say , that erm , the record of the erm issues of re-grading , longer hours , and so forth I noted the comments made on it .
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