Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other aspects of freedom did not affect them so much . |
| 2 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 3 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 4 | Well why does he make them so busy ? |
| 5 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 6 | Please God , do n't make me so vain , she asked , scrambling to her feet with the rest of the congregation as the organ launched into ‘ We plough the fields and scatter ’ . |
| 7 | If it did n't make me so angry it would be laughable . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes I have to make a lot of noise with them and move my body with them like passion — and sometimes they just slide out very gently and do n't affect me so much , like a cooling system . |
| 9 | I do n't think they even thought they would need to do any other sizes and they did n't proportion them so that you could interpolate . |
| 10 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 11 | I thought when he died that nothing could ever hurt me so much — now I 'm not so sure . |
| 12 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 13 | Does she think me so stupid that I do n't know they do that ? |
| 14 | But those preparing standard assessment tasks and other assessment instruments should consider them so as to minimise bias in the task or context and guard against any preconceptions of assessors ; and any comparison of results between single-sex schools or between those with different ethnic or social class populations should be made in the light of the evidence referred to above . |
| 15 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 16 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 17 | Horrible that you should tempt me so heartlessly and — and pity me , ’ he spat at her . |
| 18 | You could use a largely inorganic balanced source like Growmore , and rely on the bulky peat or compost for the organic input , but better still is to use organic matter like sewage sludge , poultry , farmyard and animal manures , blend them to achieve balance both in content and time , and to dry and concentrate them so that they are pleasant to handle and easy to spread . |
| 19 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish you did n't baffle me so , Charity . ’ |
| 21 | We believe that men and women together must free ourselves so as to be able to construct a new form of society . |
| 22 | They 'd say : " We look on you as part of the family — we feel we know you so well . " |
| 23 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 24 | And I said I want a job and , and she said something like oh well it does n't include you so ha ha ha ha and thought it was really funny . |
| 25 | ‘ You realize , ’ he said as they ascended , ‘ that if you 're ever tempted to breathe a word of what you see here the Society will eradicate you so quickly and so thoroughly your mother wo n't even know you existed ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I felt I had to come in and have a drink , because I did need one so . |
| 27 | She simply did n't trust herself so close to him . |
| 28 | Aiming to visit Sudan and Ethiopia next year to continue her work , I doubt whether many people would consider her so ! |
| 29 | Aiming to visit Sudan and Ethiopia next year to continue her work , I doubt whether many people would consider her so ! |
| 30 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |