Example sentences of "so [pron] [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 2 | Did n't see a match report so I 'll chip in my brief comments here on what I saw . |
| 3 | I took a mug of coffee up to the pathologist so I could earwig what was going down . |
| 4 | ‘ I do remember buying books of halfpenny tickets , so I could practice on my own in addition to the visits with the school . |
| 5 | I 've bought all sorts really , but normally in the first week or two of getting paid , I 'd buy a gram or whatever and make it last for four or five days , so I 'd sort of have a quarter a day out of it . |
| 6 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 7 | This is because a complete rose is not usually ready to be pressed in one go , so you must condition it first by stripping it of its leaves and thorns , cutting the stem and then crushing it with a hammer , before placing it in fairly deep water . |
| 8 | We supply the hard facts so you can do-it-yourself . |
| 9 | The bases have more give and spring than the traditional rigid type and are also adjustable , so you can firm up certain parts of the bed . |
| 10 | Do n't let any of this worry you ; it just means we 've added your ‘ short ’ address form so you can post to and get off the list when you want to . |
| 11 | Er oh keep these numbers small so you can sort of play about on the number line more easily , and ten minus , minus ten take away minus four . |
| 12 | Er George , the my clients instruction is not phrased very legally , but it 's , let's go for it , so we would sir like to pursue the issue of er our contention is that the outer er northern r route as shown in the structure plan key diagram as it is at present does not meet the need for traffic relief of the A fifty nine A sixty one corridor . |
| 13 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're having building work done , ’ Quigley had said , ‘ so we can camp out with you ! ’ |
| 15 | She says we 'll get some old bikes so we can bike to the baths instead of walking . |
| 16 | Processors have made it clear that they will need to recruit non-producing quota holders so they can hand on production capacity to contracted suppliers who already rely on regular leasing to maintain output . |
| 17 | A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday . |
| 18 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 19 | Brian Grant believes that clients have become more sophisticated , so they will pressure agencies to improve the quality of their services , at a time when the advertising cupboard is pretty bare . |
| 20 | BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers . |
| 21 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |