Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I turn the light off so you can see ? |
| 2 | worth a pound off so they give you ten points do they every ? |
| 3 | Well you 've got your dungarees on so you 're all ready . |
| 4 | The epidural numbs you from the waist down so I could n't feel any of the contractions . |
| 5 | It is much easier to lean further forward before attempting to rise or , if this is not possible , try bringing the feet back so they are almost under the body . |
| 6 | you , you ca you can get a bo you can get a set of , you can get a board for these to get room on so you |
| 7 | ‘ Waiting down below for us , I should n't wonder — wanting us to get a move on so ‘ s 'e can keep 'is hand in at 'is old trade ! |
| 8 | ‘ Glad you enjoyed it , ’ he commented , calling the waiter over so he could settle the bill . |
| 9 | Doc Threadneedle had fixed her body up so she healed quick , and the stinging meant that the micro-organisms he had fed into her flesh were doing their good work . |
| 10 | Okay there 's a hundred metres of string out so you know |
| 11 | Do you want your picture back so you can see |
| 12 | It was clear from the reports that he was an insanely jealous man who , for example , ‘ made [ his wife ] walk with her head down so she could n't see the bulge in men 's trousers ’ . |
| 13 | Mike had the day off so Rab C. Nesbitt went and ‘ crashed out ’ in the doorway of his home . |
| 14 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 15 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 16 | You know , women with only one tit , they cut the other off so they could shoot better with a bow and arrow , they live together , all women and no men , this woman 's written a play about them — ’ |
| 17 | I used to unyoke and make a wisp of straw and wisp her all over , rub all the sweat off so they did n't take cold , you see . |
| 18 | Mother generally visits them in March before the season hots up so she can see something of Charity and spoil her grandchildren unmercifully . ’ |
| 19 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 20 | the things up so you know |
| 21 | alright ? , the only thing is last week , Jean said that when the surveyor came last time they took all the carpets up so you might , they might have to do that |
| 22 | ‘ You were ? ’ he exclaimed , jerking his head back so he could see into her face . |
| 23 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 24 | Then tie your hair back so it does n't get wet or frizzy . |
| 25 | She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere . |
| 26 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 27 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 28 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 29 | ‘ But I have ordered the carriage hood down so we shall benefit from the movement of air . ’ |
| 30 | Now when that settles down a little bit more , maybe in a year or two , we shall lime-wash the whole frame over so you wo n't see the timbers for a bit , and just lime-wash right over the whole timbers . |