Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You realize , ’ he said as they ascended , ‘ that if you 're ever tempted to breathe a word of what you see here the Society will eradicate you so quickly and so thoroughly your mother wo n't even know you existed ? ’ |
| 2 | What happened under Winchelsey in 1297–1305 endangered both church and realm , threatening to sever them so sharply and deeply that the church would end up a wholly dependent , deeply suspected and despised branch of royal government . |
| 3 | When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free … |
| 4 | Now , TB is practically non-existent in the Western world , and something we tend to forget all about , except on the odd cultural occasion when we hear Mimi coughing herself so touchingly and melodically to death in La Bohème , or read the life of a Lakeland poet , or dwell on the saga of the Lady of the Camellias . |
| 5 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 6 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 7 | After two years , he was judged to have learnt sufficient skills , and was apprenticed to a Plymouth shoe maker who treated him so harshly and badly that he was re-admitted to the workhouse where he stayed until he was 19 years old . |
| 8 | We knew him so well and so when the time came and we saw how he was playing and how he was hitting the ball , that he could beat anyone ’ . |
| 9 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 10 | She put it so nicely and so firmly that no one seemed to mind too much . |
| 11 | How could she , even fleetingly , entertain such a thought for a man who despised her so deeply and so openly ? |