Example sentences of "they so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 2 | They were all excellent measures , as my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin who voted for them so enthusiastically , will confirm . |
| 3 | It was not life that connected them so firmly , but death . |
| 4 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 5 | Why then did he admire them , and collect them so avidly ? |
| 6 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 7 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 8 | They often remain in a state of despair that the world at large and their nearest friends and relatives treat them so badly . |
| 9 | According to Marie Raden , police investigator in the Vanersborg district , it requires an astonishing knowledge of animals to be able to approach the horses , and hurt them so badly , without causing them to offer resistance . |
| 10 | He beat them so badly there was hardly a bone left unbroken in either of their bodies . |
| 11 | To love someone this much and to want them so badly . |
| 12 | Ca n't get in and out of them so easily |
| 13 | If people did n't cooperate you could n't lead them so easily . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 16 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 17 | At least , Peter had found them disastrous , and he would find them so again if Anna chose to try and charm Colonel Richardson out of his opinion of working clergy wives . |
| 18 | ‘ You feel for them so acutely — ’ |
| 19 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 20 | Dawn 's words re-echoed in her mind , in spite of the fact that Robert had derided them so vehemently , and she felt that she must always be on her guard . |
| 21 | What was achieved by the great expansion of research which produced these drugs and the clinical innovation which adopted them so freely ? |
| 22 | But , of course , many of our means of communication are instinctive and we have practised them so frequently since childhood that we choose the means of encoding a message almost without thought . |
| 23 | You taught them so well , ’ she went on , ‘ you 've made the name O'Malley hated and feared for miles around . |
| 24 | He knows them so well . |
| 25 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 26 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 27 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 28 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 29 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 30 | ‘ We did some homework on their side but we know them so well it was hardly needed . ’ |