Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need .
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 A year or so back I found myself sitting next to him , bearded in his old age and wearing plus fours , overall resembling a successful if slightly barmy countryman , at a ghastly new play at the Almeida .
19 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 .
20 During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog .
21 And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes .
22 They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me .
23 Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch .
24 In fact , the chemistry on the earth is rather special — it 's the sort of chemistry we 're used to doing at the temperature on the earth in the conditions that occur on the earth , but interspatial space the conditions are quite different and so , in fact , it turns out the chemistry is different , and so also we find that there are molecules that we do n't expect .
25 and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 And so instead she shrugged , a gesture that , fortunately , could mean many things .
29 We 're public figures and so therefore we know we 're in the firing line .
30 But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration .
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