Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 2 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 3 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 4 | It therefore looks as though a decade in which her political nerves had always been stretched was succeeded by a dangerous level of confidence when the situation became apparently so much safer ; she was no longer walking a tightrope , and she now walked too boldly on the ground . |
| 5 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 6 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 7 | The only shapes that fit together so closely that all their walls are common with those of their neighbours are triangles , squares and hexagons . |
| 8 | His areas of colour are absolutely precise and integrally related and so the formal means and the pictorial incidents fit together so perfectly . |
| 9 | It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them . |
| 10 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 11 | As Leo XIII has already so clearly set forth : ‘ … |
| 12 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 13 | I think we ought to ask for a pay increase , not from him , from the job cos he comes home scruffy this is the cleanest that he 's come home so far . |
| 14 | ‘ It looks ever so deep . ’ |
| 15 | The arms are slightly noded becoming distinctly so distally . |
| 16 | Mr Patten is considering his future after rejecting any question of a by-election being created to return him to Westminster forthwith ; he has also so far declined a move to the House of Lords . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ Senhor Abul will not permit me to dine quite so lavishly . ’ |
| 18 | The Yorkshire boxers ' misfortune at having to box twice so soon before the N-E Counties finals can only help the N-E division winners , who laid on another fine night of boxing at Gateshead Leisure Centre on Friday . |
| 19 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 20 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 21 | ‘ Even with an injury to the heart , especially if the wound is in one of the right-hand chambers which do not have to work quite so hard , people can summon reserves of strength which seem incredible to us when they arrive in casualty and we see the extent of their injuries . ’ |
| 22 | Liberal social thinkers , on the other hand , have generally been less inclined to delineate quite so sharply vast historical epochs in which distinct types of political system prevailed , or to assert such a close relation between the political system and the structure of society . |
| 23 | Ex-Walkers staff to have come forward so far include Alfred Donaldson ( who started at Pagefield in 1934 ) , Bob Smith and Ted Porter , who still works for parent company Beloit Walmesley of Bolton , who now make giant paper making machines . |
| 24 | ‘ They said they would not allow him to come otherwise so here I am , ’ says Marci . |
| 25 | This is the third terrific holiday prize BNFL News has given away so far this year … and we still have more superbreak prizes to come ! |
| 26 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 27 | Yeah you keep the log cos the log book 's got to be done Right so there on the first one it 's got ta be Matt and Jan , lazy shit |
| 28 | Turtle Island who won at Royal Ascot , Leopardstown and York has done most so far but at this point in time I could n't make up my mind between Turtle Island and my other two big race winners , State Performer and Stonehatch . |
| 29 | " He has done so so often and in so many places that neither employers , nor agitators , nor his sailors pay much attention to his words " . |
| 30 | I think we were both wanting to be free , to write our own work , yet we were afraid to relinquish the relationship that had kept us writing together so long . |