Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories .
2 ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water .
3 In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government .
4 It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies .
5 How could she have failed to be knocked sideways by the man who , despite standing motionless and silent during the ceremony , appeared so effortlessly to dominate the proceedings ?
6 As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat .
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