Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 2 | We do not know why New Town , on Poole Bay , failed so completely to come off . |
| 3 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 4 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 5 | It is this environment of faith in the home that western society needs so desperately to recover . |
| 6 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 7 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 8 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 9 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 10 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 11 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 12 | Paul wants so badly to look away . |
| 13 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 14 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 15 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 16 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 17 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 18 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 19 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 20 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 22 | Title-holder John Parrott fired the fastest century break so far to lead Ireland 's Joe Swail , 6–2 . |
| 23 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 24 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 25 | She was not a garish poster girl or the kind of woman you see on magazine covers , shellacked into bookstall anonymity , but she was much closer to that real yet elusive image those boringly and indeed obscenely ubiquitous categories of commerce keep striving so unsuccessfully to represent . |
| 26 | It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past . |
| 27 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 28 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 29 | Apart from the reshuffled attack the rest of the side is the same as played so effectively to deny Donegal in the league final replay . |
| 30 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |