Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The really insidious and mischievous phrases are the well-established ones that come to mind unbidden because we have heard them so often . |
| 2 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 3 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 4 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 5 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 6 | You got me so far ? |
| 7 | But because he read them so often the Bookman had a little problem . |
| 8 | In fact the only thing they 've given me so far are heels like ungrated Parmesan cheese . |
| 9 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 10 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 12 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 13 | ‘ You want me so much now , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I must not forget the back-up staff and the community staff who visited me so promptly after my return home . |
| 15 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 16 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 17 | Horrible that you should tempt me so heartlessly and — and pity me , ’ he spat at her . |
| 18 | He beat them so badly there was hardly a bone left unbroken in either of their bodies . |
| 19 | I was possessed of a lively curiosity to investigate this kampong of the Other Side — that lively curiosity which has carried me so successfully through life . |
| 20 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 22 | Perry fixes his gaze onto Crilly 's ; I am hurt that he has forgotten me so soon . |
| 23 | And the Cid Ruydiez did so well , and made such mortality among the Moors , that the blood ran from his wrist to his elbow ! great pleasure had he in his horse Bavieca that day , to find himself so well mounted . |
| 24 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 25 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 26 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 27 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 28 | They 'd say : " We look on you as part of the family — we feel we know you so well . " |
| 29 | ‘ I can guess why you 're here , ’ she began , ‘ I just had n't expected you so early . ’ |
| 30 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |