Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 2 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 3 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 4 | It seemed inconceivable that the man who had teased her so unforgivably in the morning had been so filled with compassionate understanding later in the same day . |
| 5 | It is gratifying to the region that tribute is paid to Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery : ‘ The output of the Sunderland potteries as a whole is without doubt the best documented — one must be grateful to the Sunderland Museum for the research done — and for summarising it so admirably in the publication Sunderland Pottery . |
| 6 | We have said nothing so far about the Joseph story , and we have no space here to go into any detail . |
| 7 | It would be particularly depressing if Mr Major were to strive to ‘ move to the centre ’ ideologically to show sensitivity to the voters who snubbed him so roundly across the country in the recent council elections . |
| 8 | People who apologize always put themselves so soundly in the right . |
| 9 | Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world . |
| 10 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 11 | Though goodness knows why they think they have to do it so early in the morning . |
| 12 | He hit her , catching her so hard on the side of the head that she went down full-length on the sand . |
| 13 | The only sadness was that my parents , who had supported me so fully in the earlier days , were n't there to enjoy my success . ’ |
| 14 | At this point a further contradiction in Sartre 's whole enterprise begins to open up : for someone so deeply distrustful of universals it seems curious that he has involved himself so emphatically with the notions of totality , History , and the dialectic . |
| 15 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 16 | And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past . |
| 17 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 18 | to have led him so gullibly over the hills |
| 19 | But increasingly we are finding that they are developing across the interstices of the organizational and technical skills which have served us so well in the past . |
| 20 | It is a wise precaution to ensure that we continue to have the nuclear deterrent which has served us so well in the past . |
| 21 | The proposals of the Labour party , the Liberal Democratic party and the Scottish National party would undermine that relationship that has served us so well in the Union . |
| 22 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 23 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 24 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 25 | Thank you so much for the tea . ’ |
| 26 | And thank you so much for the beautiful card , the towel and bookmarks . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ Alyssia muttered , relieved that some of the tension had been dissolved . |
| 28 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Thank you so much for the information , ’ she muttered with cold politeness . |
| 30 | Thank you so much for the mince pies — you never forget me — ’ |