Example sentences of "so [pron] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations .
2 So I am constrained by my material world — the practicalities of my material circumstances — just as much as by my physical world .
3 Choir and instrumentalists are as responsive to Gardiner 's direction as we have come to expect of them but even so I am left with the feeling that the great sense of occasion generated by this music has only been realized in part .
4 No address is given on either the product or the instructions and so I am left in the dark .
5 So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics .
6 I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip .
7 So I 'm bound to be recognised .
8 gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills
9 We 've got erm yes we 've got quite a lot of land stock interest we might have accrued er and have n't , erm thirty million pounds in fact , but erm it has n't been accrued because in our view it 's some years off for being paid , but we think er or so I 'm informed by the Chairman of B-Sky-B er that things are going quite well
10 Well I think the answer to that is you 've got to remember this kind of hunting is cooperative and cooperative hunting does rely first of all on having other men to go hunting with you which is , which is important and also or so I 'm told by people like David McKnight and Warren Shapiro an awful lot depends on information , we want to know where the game is , who saw what where , what did they catch you know , was there rainfall over the so and so ranges and so on , and you need to know that information if you 're gon na be an effective hunter and you need good communication with other men .
11 My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults .
12 So I 'm put into the hands of what used to be called ‘ Wardrobe ’ but now has the grander title of ‘ Costume Designers ’ , who are keen for me to join the twentieth century sartorially , which would involve climbing into one of those colossal suits .
13 So you are acquainted with Madonna Benedetta .
14 So you are left with erm conversation
15 So you 're bound to , you you can get somewhere one deals work and erm
16 So you 're hooked on the stimulants now , are you ? ’
17 So you 're left with hardware .
18 So you 're left with four .
19 So we 're overseen by the watchdog , the Water Inspectorate publish an ann annual report , see how well we 're doing .
20 It 's certainly our responsibility to provide education , but this is an issue of shortage of teachers , and so we 're faced with that major problem .
21 You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that .
22 So we 're left with absolutely riveting ‘ highlights ’ such as players spitting and balls being brilliantly retrieved from behind advertising hoardings .
23 Erm so we 're left with
24 So we 're left with fields .
25 So we 're protected from volatile politics and and situations .
26 Broadly speaking , the working-class/middle-class division still reflects crucial differences in life-chances between manual and non-manual workers , and so we are justified in seeing non-manual workers as members of a distinct class .
27 So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both .
28 So we are faced with a fundamental problem .
29 So we are referred to the chemistry of the reaction of society ; and here we are involved inescapably in a circularity of reasoning .
30 Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids .
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