Example sentences of "about so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
2 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
3 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
4 | There were problems about so blatantly exposing homosexuality on the air . |
5 | However deeply you care for your children , without knowledge of how they develop , how their experiences affect their personalities , you ca n't give them this … this birthright you talk about so glibly . |
6 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
7 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
8 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
9 | But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act . |
10 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
11 | Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ? |
12 | So what I 'm , what I 'm sa , saying now is this , that based on what we talked about so far |
13 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
14 | What 's that book about so far , Orgady ? |
15 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
16 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
17 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
18 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
19 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
20 | This was the city she had dreamt about so often , and although it was not quite as clean and fairy-like as she had imagined , it possessed a quality of age and empire . |
21 | There are n't many flowers about so early in the year . |