Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] so " in BNC.

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1 She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album .
2 He obviously misses the lads because he got on so well with them . ’
3 It was n't as complicated because they got on so well .
4 It seemed to her that the reason the Jews of Cork got on so well with their Catholic neighbours was because they were actually poles apart .
5 ‘ They got on so well together , it was amazing , ’ Gerald Thomas told me .
6 Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team .
7 It was one of the reasons they got on so well with each other .
8 The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out .
9 ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’
10 Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places :
11 ‘ I certainly sha n't speak to her until she starts replying to my letters , ’ said Lord Grubb , cued in so that it was possible to say it at last .
12 I wondered how you caught on so quickly to the trick of running water which will blot out all our conversation .
13 He kept trying to rewrite the script and would produce pages which he scrawled on so badly you could n't read it , and neither could he .
14 She discarded the trouser suit for a set of underwear in palest pink , and Claudia seethed at having the most wonderful moments of her life dismissed in so summary a fashion .
15 The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes .
16 As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’
17 When your carpets were down , you moved in so he 's coming back December the eighth .
18 As a building , it stands in testimony to the skills and industry of those who contributed in so many ways to its design , construction and furnishing .
19 And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't
20 If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far .
21 Many of the ‘ real ’ sentences that were processed took so long and used up so much of the computational processing of the SUN system that full testing was not feasible .
22 car conked out so Vicki stayed with the car and her who we were going to take a walk in Ruddington , and I walked home with her to get Malcolm to go over with the other car .
23 But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move .
24 Phat looked inquiringly towards his master , wondering if the procedures should be halted , but the Corsican waved him on , gesturing peremptorily for the crowd to he moved back so that the new recruits could see what was happening .
25 Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it .
26 And it is worth taking careful note of a man who has consistently read the markets correctly , avoiding debt and the pitfalls of the 1980s that caught out so many others .
27 ‘ We 're working on them , but everyone moved about so much except poor young Mr Vickers , who was in his workroom all the time . ’
28 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
29 She tried to slip free , but he moved round so that he could see her face more clearly .
30 They had both already seen and lived through so much and they were fearless in the way they connived to break the school rules at every opportunity .
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