Example sentences of "so [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 2 | I do so enjoy introducing one friend to another . ’ |
| 3 | The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment . |
| 4 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 5 | Again it seems that the radical critique has confused form and content , and so has directed valuable criticisms about the level of state support towards the form of state support itself . |
| 6 | She says I could put hers down , you says I could put yours so stop telling big whoppers again . |
| 7 | Secondly , they should decide in what manner and why they are so performed to give appropriate expression and sustain a style throughout the whole design . |
| 8 | The structures so produced have some properties of a linguistic analysis of the definitions and some properties of a semantic definition of word sense concepts , and they take the basic syntactic form of nested feature lists . |
| 9 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 10 | So get sending those cards now . |
| 11 | So will closing these hospitals improve acute care ? |
| 12 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 13 | According to the Court of Appeal in Tagro v Cafane this requires the valuer to assume that he can sell it on the open market to a willing buyer , and in so doing to ignore any covenant against assignment which restricts alienation of the landlord 's interest . |
| 14 | The ‘ racial ’ criminal subcultures of each group are seen to wantonly violate the laws and customs which express the civilization of the national community and in so doing provide powerful symbols which express black difference as a whole . |
| 15 | Should her promise to refrain from so doing constitute good consideration ? |
| 16 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 17 | Rarely , it may even be unreasonable to select you for redundancy on the basis of length of service , for instance if doing so entails retaining another employee past retiring age when you are much younger and still have plenty to offer . |
| 18 | You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing . |
| 19 | So try to maintain normal meals at normal mealtimes , and normal sleeping patterns as far as possible . |
| 20 | Frequent sugary snacks do more damage to teeth than the same amount of sugar all in one go , so try to limit sugary foods to mealtimes . |
| 21 | Proposals over and above the levels so indicated constitute new policy proposals . |
| 22 | So keep practising that summary . |
| 23 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |
| 24 | On a smooth paper life is easier and the colour lies much more smoothly , so do try different papers for yourself . |
| 25 | When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true . |
| 26 | Parliament could if it so wishes confer arbitrary powers upon government . |
| 27 | To do so means asking some questions about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the male compositors " trade union , the Scottish Typographical Association ( STA ) and in particular its Edinburgh branch , the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; about the potential recruits for strike-breaking , whether these were non-union men , apprentice boys or women and girls ; and about the circumstances in which the first women crossed the threshold of Messrs Constable 's and Chambers 's offices in December 1872 or January 1873 . |
| 28 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 29 | These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition . |
| 30 | This facility , the first of its kind in the world and built with the aid of a £100 000 grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council , should allow chemical companies to design catalyst much more rationally — and so help to avoid future disasters like the dioxin explosion in Seveso , Italy . |