Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply due to the fact that these little hotels have remained faithful to habits dating from 1840 or so . |
| 2 | The behavioural view says we behave as we do ( for example not stealing , not hitting others , not spitting in dining rooms , not going about naked and so on ) because we have learned to behave this way . |
| 3 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 4 | Usually , you can rely on the butis meeting or meditating until nine or so . |
| 5 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |