Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sometimes they decide to do so just because the alternatives seem so appalling . |
| 2 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 3 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 4 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 5 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 6 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 7 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 8 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |