Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 2 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 3 | so hopefully she 'll give me a cheque next week he does n't get frightened so easily now does he ? |
| 4 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 5 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 6 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 7 | Probably the best song on ‘ Mighty Like A Rose ’ and definitely the best of the Costello collaborations with Paul McCartney that we 've heard so far . |
| 8 | Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case . |
| 9 | He he does n't believe the reassurances he 's heard so far . |
| 10 | I do n't think that 's strictly true but I do think that the discussion we 've heard so far er has fully justified erm the the raising of some fundamental questions about the the the the method of projections . |
| 11 | Just a very brief comment , perhaps summing up the and commenting on the various contributions that we 've heard so far . |
| 12 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 13 | Chairman all I 've heard so far is music to my ears er thank you . |
| 14 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 15 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 16 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 17 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 18 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 19 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 20 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |
| 21 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 22 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ he gave a deep rumble of laughter , the sound echoing menacingly in her ear , which was pressed so closely to his broad chest . |
| 24 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 25 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 26 | Being pressed so tightly against his chest — with his handsome , tanned face only inches away from her own — was so evocative of the past that she began to feel quite faint and dizzy . |
| 27 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 28 | The dynamo equations , including all the boundary conditions regarded so far as plausible , and the equations governing the magnetic field in that part of the mantle that is above the Curie temperature , are invariant under reversal of sign of the magnetic field . |
| 29 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
| 30 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |