Example sentences of "and [verb] it so " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , a dog or a cat will come for the rub and tickle it so obviously enjoys . |
| 2 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 3 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 4 | The goal is to renew the earth and to cherish it so that its fruits , its resources and its wealth may be shared by everyone — and without leaving a legacy of pollution and destruction for the next generation . |
| 5 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 6 | place , they pulled it down and rebuilt it so it has to come down |
| 7 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 8 | ‘ Tom lay down on the grass and looked into the clear , clear limestone water , with every pebble at the bottom bright and clean , while the little silver trout dashed about in fright at the sight of his black face ; and he dipped his hand in and found it so cool , cool , cool ; and he said , ‘ I will be a fish ; I will swim in the water ; I must be clean , I must be clean ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Throughout this , Esther maintained the fiction that she was in love with her older brother Saul , and maintained it so well that not even Alix and Liz knew the truth of the matter . |
| 10 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 11 | and put it so that it goes over your feet |
| 12 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |
| 13 | It 's not that Malcolm was a father-figure to us — as some have said — he was more like an elder brother who 'd actually been out there in the world and done it so he had the confidence and experience . |
| 14 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 15 | In the same year Darwin set sail on the Beagle taking with him Lyell 's " Principles " and read it so much that he had to ask the ship 's carpenter to rebind it in wood . |
| 16 | The new technology takes waste material from a manufacturing plant , mixes it with waste gases from the same plant and recycles it so that it can be used again . |
| 17 | No I 'm just thinking about erm next Tuesday , I 'm supposed to working , it turns out but I shall try and work it so that I can still come shopping with you , but I shall have to leave |
| 18 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 19 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 20 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 21 | The accented B♭s that occur as pick-up notes for each phrase in bars 2–5 should be played by hooking your r/h thumb under the G string and releasing it so that the string slaps against the fingerboard . |
| 22 | The female releases them by reaching forward with her hind leg , inserting her longest toe into the sac entrance and pulling it so that it enlarges and her young are able to clamber out . |
| 23 | ‘ You sly little trollop ! ’ he cried , grabbing her hair and pulling it so hard she nearly fell out of bed . |
| 24 | ‘ Take this to the crossroads , ’ she said , dropping the ball of cow-dung into his cupped hands , ‘ and bury it so none of it 's left showing . ’ |
| 25 | The adviser spelt out the details of the scheme , saying that the self-appraisal consisted of providing factual information , looking at what they were doing and describing it so that advisers could understand what they are trying to do . |
| 26 | It is the same principle as the female body receiving the male sperm , and , after it has conjoined with the egg , nourishing it and gestating it so that its form can grow from fundamental simplicity to the complexity of a human body . |
| 27 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 28 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 29 | It was brave of you to improvise still — and to do it so well . ’ |
| 30 | The one who was sharing Tony 's bed — and sharing it so enthusiastically that neither of them heard Folly 's approaching footsteps until she walked right into the room . |