Example sentences of "so [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 2 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 3 | I use a lot of sticky lables , so I wo n't have a problem with the new stamps . |
| 4 | ‘ No , he 's not coming this way , so I ca n't get a close look , but I 'm sure it 's not him . ’ |
| 5 | He shoved my shirt in my mouth first , so I would n't make a noise . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to get an early night , so I 'll just grab a sandwich back at the hotel . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Of course not ! ’ she replied , and even found a cheerful note from somewhere to add lightly , ‘ I ate a huge meal at lunchtime , so I 'll probably have a snack sent up , ’ and , making for her room before her emotions tripped her up , ‘ You 've been more than kind as it is . |
| 8 | I tried to start the engine but the airman on the starter battery trailer had fled so I could not do a thing except huddle in the cockpit , waiting for the sensation of being hit . |
| 9 | The chimney is blocked so I could n't light a fire to heat anything up and I went without a hot drink for those four days . |
| 10 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 11 | Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross . |
| 12 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 13 | Which means , that at the end of the day , before reaching your final decision , you must hear what people are saying , and so you ca n't take a decision as it were , a final decision about a closure , and then go out to consultation . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll heal cleanly , so you wo n't have a scar to ruin your beauty . |
| 15 | I mean you can make your your fingers so you can fucking stick a dick down there . |
| 16 | If you came to this country after 1948 as an adult , your working life still started at 16 , so you will probably have a reduced pension . |
| 17 | It was a cake you never got in England , because there the milk did not have to be boiled and so you could never collect a bowlful of creamy skin from successive goes . |
| 18 | We 've added controls which take full advantage of the instant responsiveness and controllability of gas , so you need n't make a meal out of cooking up a snack . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's when some start taking chances , so we would definitely advocate a ‘ P ’ or ‘ R ’ plate . ’ |
| 20 | Just as " big-step reductionism " can not work as an explanation of mechanism , and must be replaced by a series of small step-by-step peelings down through the hierarchy , so we ca n't explain a complex thing as originating in a single step . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's open ground to those trees , ’ the captain continued , ‘ so we ca n't risk a crossing until the moon disappears behind some cover . |
| 22 | and there 's twelve hours so we 'll only need a thousand and two hundred |
| 23 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 24 | ‘ The cause of this violence is the state security services … they are using certain organisations as a smokescreen so we can not have a majority in an election , ’ Mr Mandela told supporters . |
| 25 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 26 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 27 | They have no money , so they have no accommodation , so they ca n't find a job . |
| 28 | They do n't have electrical power , so they ca n't use a telegraph . ’ |
| 29 | The difference between our position and that of the Labour party is that people accept that we would be prepared to use nuclear weapons and know that Labour Members would not be , so they would not have a deterrent . |
| 30 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |