Example sentences of "so [adj] and then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |
| 2 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 3 | I think it 's their attitude because with Mr Price we get away with so much and then he says , no , and we have a real good old time . |
| 4 | A sprout can take just so much and then no more . |
| 5 | I find that absolutely because you know my stories I can only write so much and then I stop and think about then and then I write some more . |
| 6 | Let's , let's say we 're gon na be allowed so much and then let's measure off those against that allowance . |
| 7 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 8 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 9 | because he went on so much and then it was bought for him . |
| 10 | Pay so much of it , do so much and then you 'll get it . |
| 11 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 12 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 13 | Jenny said erm , this time it said I could n't stand , when we all come out at twelve o'clock and the shock had hit us and we sort of said oh well we 're better off out of it , I 'll , I 've survived twenty five years without , I shall survive again , and when Jan , and Janet was so sick and then I turn round and Janet says I 'm with you girl , I said where you going ? |
| 14 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 15 | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton . |
| 16 | You ran it for so long and then |
| 17 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 18 | you sweat a lot and you 're supposedly meant to feel good for so long and then it 's meant to wear off and there 's meant to be no hangover effects or nothing and that 's why it 's a designer drug and that 's why it you know , it 's supposed to be so good . |
| 19 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 20 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 21 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |