Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 2 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 3 | " I do n't like seeing so far , " she said once . |
| 4 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 5 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 6 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 7 | His children appeared to feel no bitterness about her stepping so swiftly into their mother 's shoes . |
| 8 | Why are the birds singing so strangely ? |
| 9 | He paused dramatically , gazing so intently at each child below him that Sam thought he must be scanning their heads for lice . |
| 10 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 11 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
| 12 | When he demanded who Blanche was , and why she was phoning so late , she rang off . |
| 13 | Her mouth parted in laughter again and he filled it with his lips , drawing so passionately on her that her whole body spasmed against him . |
| 14 | Jack in the box , resting so still , will you come out yes I will |
| 15 | Go on then sit down and I 'll sing it , and you have to do the jump up and do the yes I will , quick curl up , quick , quick , right , Jack in the box , resting so still , will you come out ? |
| 16 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 17 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 18 | That was why she was reacting so badly to the news that he had left Taipei . |
| 19 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 20 | Some in the low-lying places , who were heavily asleep , did drown as they lay , the water gathering so rapidly in every hollow . |
| 21 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 22 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 23 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 24 | In both the causal task and the temporal task the children were also given items using so instead of because . |
| 25 | What Firbas seems to be suggesting so far is that theme consists of context-dependent and rheme of context-independent items . |
| 26 | It 's rude to talk when you 're eating so why have you got the tape machine running ? |
| 27 | ‘ When women in North Africa and the Arab world are struggling so hard for equality and respect , it is ironic that here in France a fundamentalist minority is pushing them to conform to tradition . |
| 28 | New syllabuses ( e.g. Lesotho , Uganda ) show a greater diversification of materials and media in art and craft , and recommend many materials available in the environment rather than depending so single-mindedly on picture-making . |
| 29 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 30 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |