Example sentences of "so as [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland .
2 He was hugely amused by it , the more so as we paced up and down in exasperation .
3 He rifled the inside of the the the the cylinder and the piston was rifled as well , you know slightly ribbed , so as it went forward it turned you see .
4 His was a hectic life , becoming more so as it went on .
5 They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out .
6 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
7 and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ?
8 When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved .
9 It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 .
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