Example sentences of "so [pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I see that she does , so I shall certainly give way to her .
2 'l I have already emphasised the importance of control and independence as factors in the anorexic process , so I shall now quote Erikson to illustrate the relation between emptiness and being left alone , and the relevance of both to anorexia nervosa :
3 ‘ I gave him my heart , and he destroyed it , so I ca n't feel pity for him .
4 I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’
5 He was n't even late for work , let alone under the influence of drink , so I could hardly suggest counselling in those circumstances . ’
6 Like the hon. Member for Copeland , I have reduced my time considerably , so I will not give way .
7 It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation .
8 Their task was to impregnate the woman so she would eventually produce children who could serve Satan .
9 You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’
10 because governments have to defend the country , so you ca n't believe promises parties out of power make to disarm ( justification of stated opinion ) ;
11 And install a cattle trough which is , as far as we ho as far as we believe , vandal-proof , in that it 'll be a self-filling c er cistern filled cattle trough which the , the erm the , the ball float is actually contained in a erm a metal box so you ca n't get access to it .
12 Housing benefit is very , very difficult to get erm and again it 's paid in arrears , and landlords wo n't wait for that , so you ca n't get accommodation erm and you just sort of go down and down with discouragement really .
13 S Time is not a decimal so you ca n't operate time as a decimal .
14 I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system .
15 Sometimes a more matronly dame may preside at a table whereon is a large basin of curds , jugs of cream , a number of strong dessert-plates and horn spoons , and a goodly array of oaten cakes ; so you may thus have curds and cream in the land of brown heath — and if lovely scenery lends a zest to wholesome fare , you should not fail to patronize this vendor of good things .
16 And then He was crucified and three days later rose from the dead , and at Mass the bread and wine actually turn into flesh and blood , so you should n't have breakfast that morning but take it on an empty stomach .
17 It 's flexible , so you can either count calories or follow a weekly menu plan — just make your choice .
18 Now , this this material that we use technically called acetate and the nice thing about is that you can write on with if you get acetate pens so you can freehand to produce sketches , diagrams etcetera .
19 PowerPoint combines a word processor and spell checker with drawing and presentation tools , so you can easily combine text , graphics and charts .
20 Powerpoint combines a word processor and spell checker with drawing and presentation tools , so you can easily combine text , graphics and charts .
21 Then turn off the power to the circuit concerned so you can safely inspect socket A's wiring .
22 Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused .
23 I mean the the later stages of the system had things like rule compilers and quite complex things which allowed you a more dynamic interaction with the system so you could actually build rules in and then some rules then erm allowed you to shall we say , partition out certain parts of speech .
24 Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room .
25 Well do you know what , I forgot to take the chicken out of the fridge last night so we ca n't have dinner so
26 That 's the problem — each house has to be economically independent after the preliminary conversion , you see , so we ca n't afford nursing staff .
27 ‘ There are some great titles out there , ’ he said , exclusively to ZZAP ! , ‘ … and many will swap them because they 've completed them , so we 'll always have loads of great games . ’
28 ‘ There is a full moon , so we will not need torches .
29 just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests .
30 so presumably , you know , with all this in the earlier period that erm people are gon na be , you know , have less ties towards with people , traditional ties , it 's much more , so they would just see people who were higher up in society with more other people with , with , you know rather than
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