Example sentences of "[vb past] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 2 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 3 | The Utopia that has eluded humankind for so long , and which has so frequently been proffered as a possible gift from ancient ‘ gods ’ , has always been attainable , it became so when that first ‘ good ’ event in the far-off beginning took place . |
| 4 | Thus conditions not in themselves inhuman or degrading became so when they were combined with other bad conditions . |
| 5 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 6 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 7 | We got so that , I mean , especially if we 're going out at night and something 's |
| 8 | But last time do you remember this time last year it got so that his foot was really puffy ? |
| 9 | But er there was a time , they got so If you had carried it too green , erm you er it could catch fire . |
| 10 | which Arthur plunged so that the thump and spray |
| 11 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 12 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 13 | Such a list may quite simply be typed out on sheets of paper and duplicated so that additions and changes may be made until the list has to be retyped for clarity 's sake . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 15 | This manner of association places the two C-terminal stalk regions some 140 apart ( Fig.5 a ) , oriented so that their polypeptide chains can each continue into the membranes of separate cells . |
| 16 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 17 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 18 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
| 19 | The number of placements and registrations rose so that in 1913 , 74,535 boys and 54,206 girls aged between 14 and 17 filled labour exchange vacancies and the number registering was 137,668 and 115,171 respectively . |
| 20 | She does n't cry in front of Robert any more , she still tells him lies about what things cost so that she can save some money and make sure she 'll never be dependent on him again . |
| 21 | From the time when Ali was stripped of his title until 1975 , the material conditions of blacks deteriorated ; unemployment tripled so that figures of 35–50 per cent were commonplace in urban ghettos ( Roberts and Kloss , 1979 , p.72 ) . |
| 22 | Jotan moved so that the tip of the sword was under the dwarf 's chin , forcing it up . |
| 23 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 24 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 25 | As a defence mechanism , we put on a show of superiority to keep people intimidated so that no one will think we are vulnerable . |
| 26 | In John 10 v. 10 Jesus says that He came so that ‘ you may have life , life in all its fullness ’ . |
| 27 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 28 | Then he executed a half-somersault and twisted so that when he had stabilised he was level with Rostov , but inverted . |
| 29 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 30 | Well keep the old bolognaise stirred so that it heats up all round . |