Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 2 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 3 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 4 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 5 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 6 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 7 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 8 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |