Example sentences of "[conj] soon [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked about this revolt the Prime Minister replied that he ‘ thought speed was important and hoped she would send for Lord Home immediately-as soon as she got back to the Palace ’ . |
| 2 | Quite right , except soon as your back 's turned dear |
| 3 | I also knew that soon after she stopped seeing him she died . |
| 4 | Naturally , I 'd found that soon after I 'd arrived . |
| 5 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 6 | Perhaps changing some people 's old and dated views so that soon when other young women undoubtedly become pregnant they will be protected from what I personally find I am going through . |
| 7 | Here children like her and others are studying for ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels knowing that soon as they leave school they go right on the dole . |
| 8 | So many that , er yeah , so many of them that soon as one 's sold somebody else sells another one . |
| 9 | The police will know that soon if they do n't already . |
| 10 | Rudd 's temporary job evolved into a full-time role as a ‘ sort of chief mechanic running the racing shop at Folkingham ’ , and soon after he married Pam , a girl from Bourne . |
| 11 | It was not long — and far quicker than he knew — before she became aware of his scrutiny and soon after sensed the unusual and possibly intimidating intensity of it . |
| 12 | Quite quickly Horton enlisted the help of friends to act as an embryo staff for the new project , and soon after a sponsor was found to donate the use of her buildings in a rural area of Southern Appalachia . |
| 13 | In Australia news of the split came at 3am Sydney time , and soon after talk-back radio shows were inviting comment from night-owl listeners . |
| 14 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |
| 15 | However conditions seemed promising in the morning and we set off with lunch packs in our bags and hope in our hearts ! on the two-hour boat run there are always lots of birds to look at , and soon after we left ‘ the narrows ’ of the harbour entrance we were aware of black-browed albatrosses . |
| 16 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 17 | He stayed away two years and soon after he returned found that , as an eighteen-year-old , he faced National Service . |
| 18 | His practical education was evidently gained working in his father 's business and soon after he came of age he was taken into partnership , the firm then moving to the larger settlement of Corbridge . |
| 19 | Nine days later came the massacre , and soon after they came to Bei Da , beating and killing . |
| 20 | Portugal was an apostolic fief from 1179 and soon after his accession Innocent wrote to Sancho I about the payment of the papal dues . |
| 21 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 22 | That was in 1988 and soon after he was given the task of running the show . |
| 23 | He was lying on the offside lane and soon after a car went straight over him . ’ |
| 24 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 25 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 26 | And soon as he said righto Jack , take the rugs off , I 'd take or the , little lad helps me as well , you know and he takes the rugs off and then I tell them what to do you see . |
| 27 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 28 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 29 | but soon after he heard a voice , |
| 30 | But soon after John was selected as the prospective Cheltenham candidate , the Taylors concluded that there were too many pressures to introduce a new baby . |