Example sentences of "so [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 3 | So although it looks like , Ooh this is horrible , four equations four unknowns , I 'll be here all night |
| 4 | Now , looks pretty horrendous alright , but if we bum data on S T , S T minus one , S T minus two and P T minus one , all actual variables , if we bung those into the microfit and ask them to form the regression , it would do , right , it would just you 'd get S T equals A plus B that 's T minus one plus C A T minus two plus D A T minus one alright , and B T So before we we 'll call that equation four right , so although it looks nasty alright it 's fairly straightforward , it 's all , all we 're doing is , we 'd be asking the computer to regress S T on constant like how you would yourself T minus one to like values T minus two and like prices okay . |
| 5 | So once it 's got onto our approved list , we 're pretty sure that we 're , we 're really in the right area . |
| 6 | Okay , so once it 's signed and accepted , the client , does their part of the bargain , i.e. pays their premiums , then there 's no way we can decide to opt out of the contract , |
| 7 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 8 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 9 | It is important to plan the evaluation process at the outset so that it relates to the stated objectives . |
| 10 | It means that you can spot irrelevancies and be better at controlling your behaviour so that it contributes to the achievement of your objective . |
| 11 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 12 | Would it be false if I could actually ‘ throw my voice ’ so that it seemed to come from somewhere else ? |
| 13 | The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow . |
| 14 | There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds . |
| 15 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 16 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 17 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 18 | Simply apply lateral cyclic and tail rotor commands to bank and turn the model so that it presents its side view to the direction of travel . |
| 19 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 20 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 21 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 22 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 23 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 24 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 25 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 26 | This passage or corridor was carpeted in moss green , now faded and stained in places from water and the urine of nervous animals , so that it looked more like some natural substance , moss or close-cut turf , than man-made carpet . |
| 27 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 28 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 29 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 30 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |