Example sentences of "went so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 2 | the big one went so slow . |
| 3 | So he went so away we went . |
| 4 | The reason the plan went so sadly askew was the not-wholly-unexpected but extremely untimely death of Laura Stratton herself , though whether this was occasioned by her own complicity , excitement , remorse — whatever ! — we shall never really know . |
| 5 | You said , Masklin , that the plane went so fast it left its sound behind , and so high up there was blue all around it . |
| 6 | It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was . |
| 7 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 8 | It went so fast , we could n't believe it . |
| 9 | And it all went so sweetly . |
| 10 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 11 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 12 | His campaign went so well up until now . ’ |
| 13 | Tom sang a Burns song and then , because it went so well with the guitar , never mind the sax , Don Giovanni 's pretty serenade . |
| 14 | All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised . |
| 15 | ‘ No chance , ’ she stated swiftly on a light laugh , and quickly dismissed the subject by turning to her host with a query about the wine that went so well with the meal . |
| 16 | The party 's phone-in went so well that it will be repeated on the next three Wednesday evenings right up to the eve of the poll . |
| 17 | It went so well that the consultancy is now planning to hold more top notch dinners at Cottons . |
| 18 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 19 | Her hand went so quickly to cover her profile and her mouth became so taut , he thought she was going to weep with the same energy . |
| 20 | The rest of my holiday went so quickly , each day we went out , sight seeing or to various beaches , and also it was very hot , not like England . |
| 21 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
| 22 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 23 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 24 | ‘ It went so smoothly . |
| 25 | So he said he did n't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we 'll go to the Regal tonight . |
| 26 | An English handbook written in 1980 even went so far as to state : ‘ The enjoyment of looking ( what we call the aesthetic experience ) is , in fact , the core of the discipline known as Art History . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , the Broadwater Farm Youth Association has expressed its concern about the situation to the police on a number of occasions , and in August 1989 went so far as to close the youth centre on the estate for some time in an effort to stop dealers congregating there . |
| 28 | Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda . |
| 29 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 30 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |