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 . ’
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