Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 2 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 3 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 4 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 5 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 6 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 7 | He loves her so much and what 's he going through now she has told him she has a child by another man ? ’ |
| 8 | For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow . |
| 9 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 10 | Mr Dalrymple 's son Joe said the gunmen had been prepared to shoot anybody so long as they were Catholics . |
| 11 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 12 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 13 | You were pretty then , but now — ’ he stood back and surveyed her so admiringly that it was impossible to take offence ‘ — now you 're absolutely beautiful . ’ |
| 14 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |
| 15 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 16 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 17 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 18 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
| 19 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself curled up inside a dark cocoon , which envelops you so closely that you can barely breathe . |
| 20 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 21 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 22 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 23 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't mind anything so long as we 're safe , ’ she said . |
| 25 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 26 | Lastly , which is something we all reach eventually , hopefully , is what we call unconscious competence , when you know how to do something so well that you do it un without thinking , it 's like driving . |
| 27 | He yelled something so loudly that my ear-drums rang . |
| 28 | I was surprised that Madame expressed herself so warmly when she spoke of Nissim . |
| 29 | He glanced round , then caught her arm and steered her unceremoniously across the street into a small park , holding her so tightly that she had no chance to break away . |
| 30 | He had gathered her closer in his arms , he was holding her so tightly that she could n't tell whose heartbeat it was she felt throbbing within her bones , his or hers . |