Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 3 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 4 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 5 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 6 | ‘ I understand that over 500 students altogether took part in the Guild 's first course and it is good to see so many here today to collect their certificates . |
| 7 | Not that their newly re-upholstered troubled-funk rhythms would n't make converts of you all on the spot , but it 's heartening to see so many so attached to , well , so little . |
| 8 | After seeing so many beatifically smiling faces of Mao , Chou , and Hua , as well as many jolly workers engaged in various agricultural and industrial pursuits , it was quite a relief to enter a large room the walls of which were absolutely covered with vitriolic cartoons against the gang of four . |
| 9 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 10 | No I , I got so much here I thought it would be fair to with you . |
| 11 | Mr Dods , of Coatham House Farm , Coatham Mundeville , said : ‘ When I was young I would barely get on a bus on my own but I got so much out of Young Farmers . |
| 12 | Things have altered so much now . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're just making that up , the way you make so much up . |
| 14 | It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same |
| 15 | ‘ You hide so much here , ’ said Grainne . |
| 16 | You do n't need so much now anyway . |
| 17 | Because they 're becoming so obscure now , that they 're becoming an e exercise in erm obscures or obscurity or whatever in the same way into the same appalling state as the annual report disease is becoming a design competition not an annual report presentation of financial figures . |
| 18 | She 'd not act so silly again . |
| 19 | That must be why they grow so tall so quickly and such a peculiar shade of green . |
| 20 | ‘ Because the murders were committed so close together we are looking into possible links between the two . ’ |
| 21 | You do n't know so much yet , or you 'd know that wise people do n't mock what they do n't understand ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 23 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 24 | Little kids eat you alive , they want so much physically and emotionally . ’ |
| 25 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 26 | That 's why it looks so awful down there . |
| 27 | Its linear diameter is I 392 000 km ; it looks so small only because it is at a distance of nearly 150 million km from us . |
| 28 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 29 | well I do n't think it matters so much in with the |
| 30 | ‘ He is also a little eccentric , sometimes very odd , probably through living so much alone … |