Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
| 2 | From the bidding so far it seems that East is sitting over North with a strong and long diamond holding . |
| 3 | And because of that it tipped Ruth 's heart so desperately she curled her arms around his neck and clung to him . |
| 4 | I had n't heard any shouting so therefore I did n't believe that anybody else was having any problems . |
| 5 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 6 | We can read into Las Meninas such a view of the Habsburgs ( Fig. 8 ) : Philip IV and Mariana are merely reflections , living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe ; a tiny princess dressed as an adult with a skirt so stiff it makes her look as if she is on wheels , surrounded by curtseying maids , a dwarf , a midget , a huge dog with the ability to sleep through anything , and a great artist , aloof and all-powerful . |
| 7 | The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent . |
| 8 | In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on . |
| 9 | THE gunman in the Darlington siege loved his girlfriend so much he resorted to violence in a fit of jealousy , it was claimed last night . |
| 10 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 11 | Sharing with relatives after divorce So far I have concentrated upon two situations in which people may live with relatives , both of which probably would be regarded as a predictable part of the normal life cycle . |
| 12 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 13 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 14 | Just as surely as , Jesus had an interview with Pilate in the judgement hall so now he has an interview with you and with me . |
| 15 | Yes you could do but the point is the , it 's where a person injects , a drug addict always injects into a vein so therefore they get these pin marks over veins , not necessarily , the veins go between fingers and toes and wherever , but they go into a vein where the diabetic goes into the muscle , into the arms , round the stomach area or the thigh . |
| 16 | I stand clutching the receiver while he lets out a sigh so long I have to feed another ten pence into the meter . |
| 17 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 18 | I had a circuit judge so everywhere he went I had to follow . |
| 19 | We did n't take a lot I mean she was a history teacher so now you know why I did n't learn a lot of history cos all we did was giggle . |
| 20 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 21 | No the the bills are met by er on the territorial funding basis so basically we pay for the work done in the U K. |
| 22 | No the , the bills are met by er on the territorial funding basis so basically we pay for the work done in the U K. |
| 23 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 24 | On a day when the general debate centred on whether or not games should be held when gales are blowing , Jess ruined a few arguments by going about his business so smoothly he gave the impression that in those areas of the field in which he moved , the wind had been magically stilled . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ she said , but she expressed the truth so artfully it sounded almost as if there was a possibility . |
| 26 | There was no sign of his jacket but there was a second door to the room so probably he had a private bathroom and clothes closet as well . |
| 27 | Although something valuable undoubtedly disappeared when tight-knit inner city communities were dispersed to bleak estates and high rise flats , you only have to look her shot of a dank backyard with wall so high it blocks out sunlight , to recognise that life there was not halcyon either . |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly screamed , his yell so loud it seemed his lungs would burst . |
| 29 | Sheila wo Sheila used to give him a bone so maybe he thought |
| 30 | She shook her head so hard she felt dizzy . |