Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
2 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
3 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
4 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
5 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
6 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
7 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
8 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
9 | The producers liked the idea so much that they decided to make a two part series full of dancing , celebrations , cookery and food . |
10 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
11 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
12 | So basically if you read Wong you 're laughing . |
13 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
14 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
15 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
16 | Oh , there are all manner of things I need , it is so long since I went shopping . |
17 | It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once . |
18 | But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward . |
19 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
20 | It 's so long since she has seen him . ’ |
21 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
22 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
23 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
24 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
25 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
26 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
27 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
28 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
29 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
30 | ‘ Some have praised our style and said it does n't matter if we go down , so long as we keep playing football . |