Example sentences of "and every so [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Wickrithe was only two hours away by car , and every so often they drove down to spend an afternoon with Gran ; but usually Adam was nowhere to be seen . |
2 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
3 | And every so often they kept coming up , everything alright ? |
4 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
5 | She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour . |
6 | Norman said : ‘ I could hear everyone and every so often I would try to speak out of force of habit , but nothing came out . ’ |