Example sentences of "then [pers pn] be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 2 | You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom , and then you 're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you ca n't remember what happens next . ’ |
| 3 | Having warmed to it , Flavia went on , ‘ And then you are so essentially neat , no , neat is too prosaic , you are so … styled , you look as though you had been made . ’ |
| 4 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 5 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 6 | If it is meaningful to say " the same colour " , then it is so only on condition that we can meaningfully speak of different specimens of the colour in question , or , at the very least , of different occasions on which this colour is talked about , or referred to as the " same " . |
| 7 | I can remember one standard lamp we had , it was really weird and people used to say that 'll be alright if you were landing a plane cos it had spotlights , I mean now , they , erm , in fact you can still buy the same sort of thing , but then it was so way out |
| 8 | I used to live in Brixton but then it was so sentimental last night because John Major he took us all round there because that 's where he comes from you see |
| 9 | Then he is so benevolent , so good tempered and cheerful , and , like William , interests himself so much about every little trifle . |
| 10 | Then he was so small . |