Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 2 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 3 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 4 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 5 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 6 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 7 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 8 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 9 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 10 | His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve . |
| 11 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that this reflects the very high unemployment experienced so far and the resultant weakened state of the union movement and of labour generally . |
| 13 | A fanaticism for Romeo Gigli suggests he 's going to carry on doing things right ; Browns thinks so too and this month the shop is giving him prestigious South Molton Street window space . |
| 14 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 15 | Thank you for the prompt and efficient service given so far and I hope this is an indication of the quality of supervision that we can expect . |
| 16 | All their friends are doing it , and they are aware that never again will they be in the situation where young people of similar ages , interests and academic abilities can mingle so freely and in such numbers . |
| 17 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 18 | The official report avoids the whole issue of how and why Blake and Lonsdale were able to meet so easily and relies entirely on what it was told by MI5 . |
| 19 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 20 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 21 | The sets of values embedded in one 's goals in childhood have to be modified so radically and conflicts resolved so ruthlessly that few attempt it . |
| 22 | Why are hospital patients discharged so quickly and what happens to people who can not afford the expense of convalescent care . |
| 23 | ‘ How very Evelyn , ’ said my father years later , ‘ to write so readably and inaccurately . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 25 | The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 27 | She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about . |
| 28 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 29 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 30 | Dixie lies so still and bloody that I do n't need to touch him . |