Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light .
2 Let's say I believe that he 's said nothing to you so far about the part he 's hoping you 'll play … ’
3 Thank you so much for the mince pies — you never forget me — ’
4 Thank you so much for the tea . ’
5 ‘ Thank you so much for the information , ’ she muttered with cold politeness .
6 ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ Alyssia muttered , relieved that some of the tension had been dissolved .
7 ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’
8 But no , a quick consultation of the calendar , given to you so happily by the feed rep last Christmas ( at the same time he gave you a bill ) , shows lighting up time to be 18.52 .
9 And suddenly , despite fitzAlan 's merciless vow of retribution , a fatalistic calmness descended on her , bringing a return of the cool impassivity that had served her so well in the past .
10 He hit her , catching her so hard on the side of the head that she went down full-length on the sand .
11 It seemed inconceivable that the man who had teased her so unforgivably in the morning had been so filled with compassionate understanding later in the same day .
12 Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world .
13 It would be particularly depressing if Mr Major were to strive to ‘ move to the centre ’ ideologically to show sensitivity to the voters who snubbed him so roundly across the country in the recent council elections .
14 Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale .
15 He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm .
16 to have led him so gullibly over the hills
17 In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 .
18 However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war .
19 It is gratifying to the region that tribute is paid to Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery : ‘ The output of the Sunderland potteries as a whole is without doubt the best documented — one must be grateful to the Sunderland Museum for the research done — and for summarising it so admirably in the publication Sunderland Pottery .
20 Why was it so far from the road ?
21 Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements .
22 Though goodness knows why they think they have to do it so early in the morning .
23 Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it .
24 But then , damn it , was he so obviously in the wrong ?
25 The proposals of the Labour party , the Liberal Democratic party and the Scottish National party would undermine that relationship that has served us so well in the Union .
26 But increasingly we are finding that they are developing across the interstices of the organizational and technical skills which have served us so well in the past .
27 It is a wise precaution to ensure that we continue to have the nuclear deterrent which has served us so well in the past .
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