Example sentences of "so they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-year and two-year diploma students should bear these figure in mind so they have some idea of what is going to be involved when they make an application for a further education grant to their local authority . |
| 2 | And as they only exist , these many worlds , in dreams , so they only exist in a work of art . |
| 3 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 4 | ‘ I pay cash on delivery for fish , which the fishermen like , so they always call on me first and we get super turbot , mussels , scallops , sole and plaice here . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 6 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 7 | Allow timber containers to absorb some moisture outside first , so they do n't draw it from the fruit and cause it to shrivel . |
| 8 | This looks a little strange so they 're best removed every year . |
| 9 | They fruit very early but root growth is limited , so they need good soil . |
| 10 | Bright sunlight destroys chlorophyll which they are unable to replace fast enough , and so they suffer while other , more adaptable plants flourish . |
| 11 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 12 | ‘ An avocado in every orifice , so they say . ’ |
| 13 | For years afterwards , Jay 's heart gave a lurch every time she passed the place where they parked — Astrid drove the three hundred yards from her house so they could kiss in the car before she went to Timisia . |
| 14 | These contract the muscles working through the knee without moving the joint itself , so they are ideal for managing acute knee injury . |
| 15 | ‘ So they 'll want vengeance too . ’ |
| 16 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 17 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 18 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 19 | Curiously , she was of Irish descent , a Roman Catholic , and so they grew up influenced by her form of Christianity , which is the dominant religious influence in Montreal . |
| 20 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 21 | She adjusted a nose here , a thigh there , she shifted the alignment of a particularly alluring set of eyebrows , unzipped flies to inspect their contents , was disappointed and failed to put them back properly , so they peeked , pinkly , from between metal teeth . |
| 22 | Until about eighteen months or so they will typically be unable to search for objects which have been displaced invisibly ( by transposing containers , for example ) . |
| 23 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 24 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |
| 25 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 26 | Mr and Mrs Forest 's bills will be reduced by £59 each so they will have to pay £201 each in 1991–92 . |
| 27 | Mr. & Mrs. Seymour each receive a rebate of £1.00 a week so they will have to pay the remaining £4.00 . |
| 28 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 29 | The owners of this modern kitchen preferred a wood appearance and so they rang the changes . |
| 30 | The best way to practise your tiling skills if you 've never done any before if by covering just a small area such as a washbasin splashback , where setting out the tiles so they are centred on the area concerned is a simple job , and you have the minimum of tile cutting to do . |