Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So scorpion mating demands , for the first time among the animals that have appeared so far in this history , the ritualised safeguards and placations of courtship . |
| 2 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 3 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 4 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 5 | Mr. Wilson : We know that the Hon. Gentleman is advising both companies — he informed us of that in Committee and has said so again tonight — but is it correct that he is backing Strathtay for his own area ? |
| 6 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | He was elected to Middlesbrough Council in 1983 to represent Hemlington and has done so ever since . |
| 8 | It seemed to John le Grant that having gone so far , this thought , at least , must be completed . |
| 9 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 10 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |
| 11 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |
| 12 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 13 | The Holy Week that had passed so harshly for the children in Sea House had passed less fearfully in Dynmouth itself . |
| 14 | He arrived with a Radio Shack hand-held computer phone dialler and a two-speed microcassette recorder for Coleman to use with the code that had worked so successfully before , based on a standard telephone touch-tone pad . |
| 15 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 16 | Maidstone chairman John Waugh , who bought the club just three weeks ago , said : ‘ I feel desperate for the people that have worked so hard for the club . |
| 17 | Most of the learning that occurs does so spontaneously , as problems arise in everyday activities and are resolved , often with the help of an adult , who provides an additional resource of skill and knowledge . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 19 | The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland . |
| 20 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |
| 21 | This has served us well in the past and continues to do so now . |
| 22 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | So , despite a 17 p.c. fall in volumes in Britain , Blue Circle managed to hold its prices and expects to do so again this year . |
| 24 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 26 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 27 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 28 | The one Quiss had dumped in the gruel saw the huge fur-clad figure of the human and started shaking so hard that little flecks of soupy stuff flew off It , like water from a dog . |
| 29 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 30 | Mr Singh has strongly denied these allegations in the Press and wishes to do so again . |