Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His conclusion on behalf of the Liberal Party was that the new Clause was ‘ substantially defective ’ , that if it was limited to ‘ prohibition on promoting homosexuality by teaching or by publishing material I would support it , but it is not , so I shall not support it . ’ |
| 2 | But the priest said she could not live till morning , so I could not leave her . ’ |
| 3 | The marriage brought neither of us happiness , especially when my lady wife insisted on hiding in one castle or the other so I could not follow her . ’ |
| 4 | Naturally no one was there and the gate was locked and the top of the fence was rimmed with razor-wire so I could not climb it . |
| 5 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman has an incurable problem , so I can not help him . |
| 7 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 8 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 9 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we were unable to get the boilers inspected until the Monday after the event , so we could not steam them . |
| 11 | He controls all hunters , so they will not hunt me down . |
| 12 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 13 | But he thinks a score of 8,300 would be enough to win , compared to his world record of 8,847 , so he will not rule it out . |
| 14 | However , the man with the radio at the final door worked for TAP , the state airline , not the airport , so he could not open it for us . |
| 15 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |