Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 2 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 3 | Bosnian Serb forces have so far refused to allow even UN military observers to go to Gorazde . |
| 4 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 5 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |
| 6 | As C. S. Lewis wrote so memorably , ‘ this transference of the whole self into another self without the demand for a return [ has ] hardly a precedent in profane literature ’ . |
| 7 | Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room , a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes , peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby . |
| 8 | But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay . |
| 9 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |