Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 2 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 3 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 4 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 5 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 6 | After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young . |
| 7 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |