Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll go so and see to his dinner . |
| 3 | You can sit there and say , I could go so and so if I want , but not bother . |
| 4 | I would think so and the particularly the folk living in the towns consciously tended to use less Orcadian you know they they 'd more dealings with folk from outside the islands for one thing and folk come on in off ships and so on . |
| 5 | Well I would imagine so and I th I think if I talk to Jane |
| 6 | I do n't need to copy it down when initially build it but er I might just put a little bit of extra work in I can make so and can copy it down . |
| 7 | And many of my staff in s in not just but one or two others , see this as the tail wagging the dog if you like where somebody says , you will do so and so , or you know , I 'm telling you you 'll do this . |
| 8 | Even though the Government may be afraid to say what has been paid for the companies , we shall do so and will be able to compare the selling price with the asset stripping price when that process is engaged in . |
| 9 | We will do so and remain steadfastly independent of pressure from whatever quarter . |
| 10 | You notice in that quotation that Adams says that they may study so and so . |
| 11 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 12 | Well our M O T guy , fair do you know and he 'll say so and so wants doing , can you take it away and do it ? |
| 13 | The neo-classical economists argued that it would do so and , therefore , that all Keynes had done in effect was to add a single assumption to the neo-classical system : the assumption that wages and prices were inflexible downwards because of the existence of trade unions and other restrictive practices ( which , of course , was well known anyway ) . |
| 14 | To a readership schooled in ménages from Anna Karenina to Dynasty it would seem so and yet we are never really sure . |
| 15 | The key question is now no longer whether stress accelerates ageing — there is a growing medical consensus that it can do so and often dramatically — but how best to prevent it . |