Example sentences of "[coord] so [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 2 | On hearing about our plans for a summer course at Green Park in 1982 some 30 or so showed a positive interest in attending . |
| 3 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 4 | The basin is linked to three thousand miles of inland waterways , and so had a busy commercial life at one time , and a few of its old warehouses remain . |
| 5 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 6 | I certainly had had enough and so had the poor lady , judging by her slight breathlessness , flushed cheeks and waving handkerchief . |
| 7 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 8 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 9 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 10 | Bishop Tubbs did not have this copy in his hand and so asked the 1662 question , and Madge was asked if she would obey . |
| 11 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 12 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 13 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 14 | And so began a happy parliamentary career lasting until 1970 . |
| 15 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 16 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
| 17 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 18 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 19 | And so began the brutal battle for power between the new , clan-dominated forces of General Mohamed Farah Aideed and his rival Mohamed Ali Mahdi . |
| 20 | The following day the Squadron was told that it was to transfer to pinpoint daylight bombing , and so began an intensive training period of low level flying and combing , although night ops and a day anti-shipping role continued . |
| 21 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 22 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 23 | He saw that he had no chance of winning over the militants , and so abandoned the conventional view that a political settlement was essential . |
| 24 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 25 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 26 | And so did a good many people who I , I thought would never go . |
| 27 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 28 | He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway . |
| 29 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 30 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |