Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 2 | Perhaps the rather strict parson would not approve of her travelling so far on a Sunday . |
| 3 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 4 | We are interested to know what you want from your newsletter so please find the questionnaire on pages 14 & 15 , fill it in , return it to us . |
| 5 | He then cleverly pauses , to see what the crowd thinks of his speech so far . |
| 6 | Believing in their authority so totally that they could . |
| 7 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 8 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 9 | Of the three action sample carers , two had moved towards a preference for home care : Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , though appearing ambivalent , said she was happy for Mrs Cummings to remain at home now that the project , and the services it had generated , had made caring for her mother-in-law so much easier ; and Mrs Cowan 's son-in-law said : ‘ she likes her own home so she 's entitled to stay there ’ . |
| 10 | On a day when the general debate centred on whether or not games should be held when gales are blowing , Jess ruined a few arguments by going about his business so smoothly he gave the impression that in those areas of the field in which he moved , the wind had been magically stilled . |
| 11 | Just why Fitzthomas threw in his lot so completely with Montfort and the popular movement in the city is unclear . |
| 12 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 13 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 14 | By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned . |
| 15 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 16 | If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it . |
| 17 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 18 | My patience is draining like water from a colander , but the guy called Malcolm appears at her side so fast you 'd think he was joined on a spring . |
| 19 | On 16 June he captured Châteauroux and this time it fell into his lap so easily that men talked of treason . |
| 20 | The preliminary conclusion , then , that emerges from our discussion so far is this : that the concept of a topic of discourse is analytically linked with that of identity and that there can be no question of " defining " this link in terms of the conditions of re-identification of such topics , whether they be meanings or non-meanings , for the simple reason that without presupposing the identity of the topic in a given case , the question of its " reidentification " can not even be intelligibly raised . |
| 21 | To judge by his observation so far , it was somewhere in the region of eighty-seven . |
| 22 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 23 | Taylor , however , is hoping that ‘ Gazza ’ may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far . |
| 24 | Judging by her performance so far this can only be a matter of time . |
| 25 | Lucinda lay , gazing upward , thinking about her mother so far away in London and about last night 's misfortune , which would have pleased the Countess greatly : three miserable women spending the night on a hard station bench . |
| 26 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 27 | Eighteen months later , the DTI inspectors have little to show for their work so far , apart from a bill to the taxpayer which Esquire estimates in excess of £1 million . |
| 28 | Confronted with his certainty so much stronger than her own , disorientation and alienation defusing lack of desire , she gives in as she has done before . |
| 29 | Iago 's manipulation of the verbal sign was never more brilliant , for he has only to offer the Signifier , ‘ Lie ’ — which could mean ‘ tell an untruth ’ — for Othello to snatch the Signified , ‘ lie with ’ , which has been planted in his consciousness so remorselessly . |