Example sentences of "[conj] so on [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 2 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 3 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 4 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 5 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 6 | Would you really , and think carefully about this , trust all your personal information ; diary , telephone list and so on to the memory of that recalcitrant computer on your office desk ? |
| 7 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 8 | The next two rows are accessed from a portside door , the next two from starboard , and so on along the aeroplane , except that the last row has a door to itself . |
| 9 | Because , out of her daughter-in-law and so on down the line , comes David , and then comes Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | And so too with the inside centre and so on across the field . |
| 11 | In the first place you 've got to type all those numbers , names and so on into the thing before it becomes of any real use . |
| 12 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 13 | Gib Sparling had his ham and eggs , and Scruffy the pleasure of watching somebody else peel spuds ; Dutch his pea soup thick enough to skate on , and Tex his coffee and bed with clean white sheets ; and so on through the list . |
| 14 | And so on through the book . |
| 15 | The twenty-third was allotted to Jupiter , the twenty-fourth to Mars , and the first of the next day to the sun , which thus ruled Sunday , and so on through the week . |
| 16 | Move on to the next question , and so on through the paper . |
| 17 | But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself . |
| 18 | Erm all I can say is the county council economic development people are are there on the ground with their helicopters and the cameras when Kimberley Clarke comes in or the Central Science Laboratory and the car people and so on of the moment . |
| 19 | ( a ) Planning with ‘ precise ’ goals can be likened to the Tour de France in which the participants aim for A , move on to B and so on until the end is reached . |
| 20 | A few bloodied survivors , swearing that they , and their children , and their children 's children , and so on until the end of the world , would live and die with one ambition burning in their hearts : the prevention of another such apocalypse . |
| 21 | ‘ No , according to her they just stayed undercover — separ-ately — in small villages and so on until the end of the war . |
| 22 | Given an allowable candidate word which is known to be able to start a compound or commonly used phrase , if the next part of the compound occurs in the list of alternatives for the next word position ( and so on until the end of the compound ) , then it is likely that the alternatives that make the compound are the correct choices . |
| 23 | One of the assumptions that underlies a traditional approach to the role of the tutor is the idea that more effort , direction , control , leadership , motivation and so on by the tutor is better . |
| 24 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 25 | When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes . |
| 26 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 27 | And although these are obviously er at some kind of show because if you look beyond the horses you can see there are marquees and so on in the background . |
| 28 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 29 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 30 | The question of the Selby coalfield has not been seen as a constraint on other forms of development erm peripheral expansion , expansion of villages and so on within the coalfield area . |