Example sentences of "so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 2 | Apart from the reshuffled attack the rest of the side is the same as played so effectively to deny Donegal in the league final replay . |
| 3 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 4 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 5 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 6 | Paul wants so badly to look away . |
| 7 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 8 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 9 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 10 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 11 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 12 | So we 're looking on Global terms here erm basically and also within the E E C so basically to get market penetration . |
| 13 | My parents were absolutely shocked when I went home from the doctor , seventeen year old and living on drugs , so so to speak , just because I was a bit excited about getting married ! |
| 14 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 15 | How could she have failed to be knocked sideways by the man who , despite standing motionless and silent during the ceremony , appeared so effortlessly to dominate the proceedings ? |
| 16 | So again there 's some restatement , so just to clarify things we 're looking at primarily life insurance for yourself and your wife savings plan for your daughter PHI say in six months ' time and pension planning is the , the least of your , your main concerns today , would that be the case yeah I guess so . |
| 17 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 18 | Right so just to summarize erm let's , let's remind ourselves of the , the issues we 've raised here . |
| 19 | So just to make it a little bit more exciting And then this is this is it finished off then . |
| 20 | Yeah so just to get you so you understand about fractions , you know what 's going on and you can ask intelligent questions and your teacher 'll think , Oh she knows what she 's talking about . |
| 21 | No longer so just to get a feel f |
| 22 | So just to recap again we have to try and link Ascension Day to Pentecost . |
| 23 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |
| 24 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 25 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 26 | It is this environment of faith in the home that western society needs so desperately to recover . |
| 27 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 28 | But when I saw you tonight , working so desperately to save lives and help people , I knew exactly how deeply and hopelessly I do love you . |
| 29 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 30 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |