Example sentences of "so [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so hedownstair go plenty upstair . |
| 2 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , Hoover was looking to increase the output of its manufacturing plant closer to its capacity level and so intended to boost its sales in mainland Europe . |
| 4 | She did so want to wear her new shoes . |
| 5 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 6 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
| 7 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 8 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 9 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 10 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 11 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |
| 12 | The latter part of the year looks the most promising , so remain calm earlier . |
| 13 | The position and the number of the ridges so formed vary , but there is a tendency for the ridges at high and low neap tide levels to be the most permanent , as would be expected from the fact that the waves have more time to act at these levels than at intermediate levels . |
| 14 | The cyclic quadrilateral so formed has an important property ; its opposite angles add to 180° . |
| 15 | The veins or ‘ lodes ’ of tin so formed varied in width between half a metre and six metres . |
| 16 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 17 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 18 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 19 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
| 20 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 21 | So swollen did the self-confidence of the House of Lords become that in June 1990 it rejected a measure ( the War Crimes Bill ) already decisively passed by the House of Commons on a free vote , the first such confrontation since 1949 . |
| 22 | Those who wished to do so gathered to share in the fellowship of a symbolic meal — a piece of dry bread and a cup of water . |
| 23 | Tests on earlier buildings so treated revealed that up to one in twenty houses soon showed signs of damp penetration . |
| 24 | Surfaces so treated dry very rapidly to a messy , streaky white finish at which dilute vinegar or acid cleaner should be sprayed . |
| 25 | The halfway house of floating a part of the equity of the better businesses while retaining a majority is ruled out by the fact that the units so treated have to have a three-year separate trading record first . |
| 26 | Variegated plants will start to make more chlorophyll in their leaves in response to restricted sunlight , and so tend to turn green in the shade . |
| 27 | They do not share our sense of causality , and so tend to view events as discrete and unrelated . |
| 28 | Some filter-feeders like the scallops do manage to travel : they clap their valves together convulsively and so make curving leaps , but by and large adult bivalves live rather static lives and the spreading of the species into distant parts of the sea bed is carried out by the young . |
| 29 | So make Shell your first port of call every time you need fuel — and watch those Air Miles add up . |
| 30 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |