Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] so [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 2 | Although he so obviously loved her , waited on her hand and foot , thought almost entirely of and for her , there was a tiny part of him which eluded her . |
| 3 | Regarded by everybody in that line as the world 's leading expert — he chaired , or was chairing until I so rudely interrupted him , an international conference in seismology in Rome . |
| 4 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 5 | Of course , he could want the word ‘ abverb' ( as in ‘ pleasur ab ly' ) , but I so much doubt it that I 'd bet on it . ’ |
| 6 | To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most moving after all are Bernard Gotfryd 's own feelings , just because he so rarely mentions them . |
| 8 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , Jane , what happened to you when you so cruelly abandoned me ? ’ he asked , holding me tightly in his arms . |
| 10 | And in another matter he was right : she had possessed no knowledge of the rigours of the task when she so confidently proposed it . |
| 11 | Though some of them were charming young ladies , I always managed to avoid breeding with them ( as you so courteously put it ) and I advise you do the same . |
| 12 | He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No , not at all , ’ Robyn murmured through clenched teeth , ‘ because , you see , I do n't grub around as you so delicately put it — I design . ’ |
| 14 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 15 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |
| 16 | Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death . |
| 17 | Keith Floyd , the housewife 's galloping choice and tippling gourmet extraordinaire , has said goodbye to the roues of Provence , the stews of West Cork and embarked upon , as he so professionally put it , ‘ the BBC maxi-break of a lifetime ’ . |
| 18 | Sunderland .......... 1 Sheffield United .... 1 WHAT gets up Dave Bassett 's nostrils , as he so vividly put it after his side 's draw at Roker Park , are the people who make comparisons between Sheffield United and his former club , Wimbledon . |
| 19 | She only hoped she was never attacked and needed him as protector , as he so sweetly put it . |
| 20 | ‘ Now indeed the dog will return to his vomit , as he so happily put it , ’ said Sophia . |