Example sentences of "[coord] so the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 2 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 3 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 4 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 5 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 6 | Emma : Too clever by half , Or so the critics said , week in , week out . |
| 7 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 8 | ‘ The Finns are seeing them off , or so the papers say . ’ |
| 9 | Or so the stories went , and excellent publicity they proved to be . |
| 10 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |
| 11 | Or so the people on the estate said , for it was the Major 's aim to please them and keep things running smoothly . |
| 12 | Or so the organisers would have you think . |
| 13 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 14 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
| 15 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |
| 16 | IT will solve France 's problems , protect the nation from cultural invasion and give the man in the street a new cultural joie de vivre — or so the planners say . |
| 17 | After a mile or so the banks closed in and the gradient increased … |
| 18 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 19 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 20 | Or so the packet said . |
| 21 | The highlights , or perhaps the lowlights , have included singer James Hetfield getting himself barbecued by an over-enthusiastic pyro , while the temporary pairing with Guns N' Roses caused further turbulence — or so the press would have us believe . |
| 22 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 23 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
| 24 | She was the girl with everything — fame , riches and most of all the undiluted love of her new husband — or so the world believed . |
| 25 | It was the paralysis which caused her death in the end , or so the doctor was to certify ; she died there in the workhouse , aged 70 , on 12 September 1849 . |
| 26 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 27 | Sure enough , after a week or so the boy 's right ankle was responding to more treatment , and the left-leg calf muscles were quivering . |
| 28 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 29 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 30 | It would be more surprising if it were otherwise — or so the new novel seems to tell , or remind . |