Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food .
2 Nor has any of them had to respond so intensely to his wishes .
3 She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott .
4 I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’
5 This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands .
6 Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will .
7 It 's like listening to a band suffering from perpetual memory loss , they live so relentlessly in the present .
8 So on to greyhounds a little earlier than usual , it 's the quarter final of the prestigious Pall Mall at Oxford Stadium tonight , the meeting starts at seven thirty .
9 What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … .
10 We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible .
11 And this is a Sotino which is a quality brand in those days , I , I , do n't know if it still is , I assume it is , erm , which was not advertised at all , and although the Rolex 's and so on in this world have been heavily advertised as they came on the market , Sotino 's never really was , so my father had a struggle I suspect selling .
12 The demise of an orthodox Marxism may have left theory with a sense that everything is now in flux , that the old verities have gone , but it has also involved the important realization , articulated so forcibly by writers such as Foucault or Said , of the deep articulation of knowledge with power .
13 Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer .
14 Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line .
15 She began then to feel an odd sympathy and affinity with Marcus , who entered the house so quietly ( for now they left the door open for Pat 's visitors ) and stepped so noiselessly up the stairs .
16 Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it .
17 Abandoning the isolation he had sought so avidly in September , he went back so as to be at home for Christmas , always a precarious time for him .
18 But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour .
19 She looked away then , shaken by the memory of his body tangling so intimately with her .
20 She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic .
21 At any rate , their bishoprics could not equal the territorial wealth , and so presumably to an extent the political influence , of some of their southern brethren .
22 So onward to Week 3 .
23 Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path .
24 This is so since in yet another sense of the term " explanation " , there was none .
25 It was so perfect , so right to be in his arms .
26 ‘ What 's he so right about ? ’
27 ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology .
28 So right from an early age I was told I was special .
29 So right from the beginning you need to give out positive feelings and positive feedback towards them .
30 So right from the beginning of the poem a sombre mood is present in the poem .
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