Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 2 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 3 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 4 | It goes so well with their pale skin and light hair . |
| 5 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 6 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 7 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 8 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 9 | However , the percentage of electrification in the Spanish system is much higher than in Britain and will remain so even after the completion of BR 's current major electrification project on the East Coast Main Line . |
| 10 | His shoes , his books , his leather trunks and saddlery would similarly be covered in green mould and would remain so now until the end of the rainy season . |
| 11 | Oh I do n't think so not for what they , what they , they want . |
| 12 | Well the , that , I should think so an'all by God |
| 13 | you would n't think so apart from their regulars that 's all I can say |
| 14 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 15 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 16 | ‘ Please God you wo n't have to wait so long for John to come home , ’ she said . |
| 17 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 18 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 19 | So , ironically , while we prayed that rain would not blight our sale , we worked to help those who suffer so terribly from lack of rain . |
| 20 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 21 | Had an ITN camera crew been present in Safeways when my husband and I ( to use a Royal phrase ) argued so publicly over who was paying the £75 bill , heaven knows what conclusions they would have drawn . |
| 22 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 23 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 24 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 25 | His children appeared to feel no bitterness about her stepping so swiftly into their mother 's shoes . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ he gave a deep rumble of laughter , the sound echoing menacingly in her ear , which was pressed so closely to his broad chest . |
| 27 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 28 | Being pressed so tightly against his chest — with his handsome , tanned face only inches away from her own — was so evocative of the past that she began to feel quite faint and dizzy . |
| 29 | One national company succeeded so well in getting its slogan onto the race course during a sponsored meeting that the TV company refused to film again unless some of the items were removed . |
| 30 | The hope cherished by the NIH team is that recombinant vaccinia viruses may be used to combat hepatitis B virus in Africa and Asia according to exactly the same strategy that succeeded so brilliantly with smallpox . |