Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 2 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 3 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 4 | There were problems about so blatantly exposing homosexuality on the air . |
| 5 | However deeply you care for your children , without knowledge of how they develop , how their experiences affect their personalities , you ca n't give them this … this birthright you talk about so glibly . |
| 6 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 7 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
| 8 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
| 9 | But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act . |
| 10 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
| 11 | Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ? |
| 12 | So what I 'm , what I 'm sa , saying now is this , that based on what we talked about so far |
| 13 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
| 14 | What 's that book about so far , Orgady ? |
| 15 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
| 16 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 17 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 18 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 19 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 20 | This was the city she had dreamt about so often , and although it was not quite as clean and fairy-like as she had imagined , it possessed a quality of age and empire . |
| 21 | There are n't many flowers about so early in the year . |
| 22 | The case in fact that was put forward by the North Yorkshire County Council Highways and Traffic committee was in fact that the need as so clearly expressed by Mr is that it is the A fifty nine that needs the relief more than anything else an therefore the proposal is that the northern relief road be it an inner or an outer , be built first . |
| 23 | " Then why did you take your rings off so carefully ? " |
| 24 | Which may be why she takes her clothes off so often . |
| 25 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 26 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 27 | Lord Macaulay said : ‘ I 'm very pleased that it has gone through so readily . |
| 28 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 29 | He also feels bitter towards Joanna for putting him through so much : ‘ In one respect I feel sorry for her . |
| 30 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ I 'm delighted it 's all gone through so smoothly . ’ |