Example sentences of "[conj] so [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 2 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
| 3 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 4 | Beauty is , however , only skin deep , or so they tell us . |
| 5 | Or so they tell me . ) |
| 6 | Or so they claim . |
| 7 | Currently on the market are two programs that allow , or so they claim , any printing device to emulate a real PostScript printer . |
| 8 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 9 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |
| 10 | Or so they say . |
| 11 | Petrolia Cats and dogs sense the earthquake 's imminence , or so they say . |
| 12 | Timing is everything , or so they say . |
| 13 | X marks the spot , or so they say . |
| 14 | On a clear day you can see as far as Dublin from the Great Car of Donard ( or so they say ) , but mist or heat haze have always foreshortened the view for me . |
| 15 | Over the past year or so they have appointed a new captain , coach , and secretary . |
| 16 | In the past year or so they have launched major design and marketing efforts for factory automation systems . |
| 17 | Or so they believe . ’ |
| 18 | Most businesses give monthly or 30-day terms — or so they think . |
| 19 | Or so they think . |
| 20 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 21 | Or so they seem in isolation . |
| 22 | We 're going to make so much money out of oysters that the 5 million or so you 've got against me will look like chicken feed . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , you 're not Irish — or so you keep telling me . ’ |
| 24 | You know I do n't care whether they think I 'm stupid or so you see . |
| 25 | Go to Amsterdam , and the Dutch will take 92.8p , including VAT ; a mere 52 per cent of the £1.78 or so you pay . |
| 26 | If you find that after a day or so you have aches and pains that wo n't go away , shower again , using hot water for three minutes and cold for one on the affected area . |
| 27 | Within a minute or so you have one fully rejuvenated disk drive , hopefully . |
| 28 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 29 | Right so so they get the answer . |
| 30 | Er , hands up who saw the Horizon programme on Jeannie Okay , so so you do n't want to see it then do you really ? |