Example sentences of "so on [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 2 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 3 | Now the complaint about sports is simply that other countries put more central and local government money into sport and into facilities , into training , into stadia and so on that we do . |
| 4 | In between you have elite , offbeat , unusual , mass and so on but they all lie somewhere between these extremes in terms of totally interacting and totally ignoring in many cases . |
| 5 | He 's tried direct flights and so on but he thought four hundred pounds , four hundred and fifty was a bit much although he 'll get the villa so cheaply . |
| 6 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 7 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 8 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
| 9 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 10 | Erm one of the best known commentators on the American president , a man called Richard Newstat er who 's occasionally known as Mr Williams because he 's married to er Shirley Williams a clapped-out Social Democratic politician of er yesteryear , erm Richard Newstat once said , well once said many things but er on this particular occasion said that er if you want to know what presidential power is , it is simply the power to persuade and that er when you look for er an American president what you need to look for er is not somebody who is clear minded , far sighted and so on but you need somebody who has the capacity the skill , the talent , to persuade other people to do what he wants them to do . |
| 11 | You pick up the warning signs from the news and so on before you get the official warning to go , but it 's still short notice . |
| 12 | ‘ Since the situation is unavoidable I suggest that now you 're better you make yourself as useful as possible , preparing meals and so on while I get on with my work . |
| 13 | All those old things get rather dusty and so on if they 're not looked after . ’ |
| 14 | She 's erm she 's a waitress in Chester so it can shows you how much cross section we 've got and erm she said her and her boyfriend was coming up to Blaenau to be on the picket line and so on and we were quite friendly with her . |
| 15 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 16 | Mr Walker said : ‘ Tyne Tees wanted a different starting time in order to show highlights during or after the European game but by that time Boro had made arrangements for policing and so on and they refused the request . |
| 17 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |
| 18 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 19 | not to leave our handbags er in the car , not to leave the windows open and so on and I think that really dodges the issue of why people commit criminal acts . |
| 20 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |
| 21 | Arrange the right papers for me at the Legation , travelling money and so on and I 'll come the low-risk way by rail . |
| 22 | forgive me Mr if I want to ask somebody some questions about the brochure and er the layout and so on and I find out Counsel has n't , I gather from Mr that Mr would be the person I ought to ask , is that right ? |
| 23 | And so on and I 'm pleased to say that they came back saying , Yeah we can still hold our head up high . |
| 24 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 25 | a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want |
| 26 | That 's Italy and er the home of the Mafia , there 's Greece and Turkey and so on and you come back round again , there 's the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 27 | You can produce a directory listing , move between directories , invoke PI routines , copy and edit files and so on as you would expect from the $ prompt . |
| 28 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 29 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 30 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |