Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 2 | How do you remain so calm when there 're all these things ? |
| 3 | There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law . |
| 4 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 5 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 6 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 7 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 8 | They are of the opinion that a Wooden Bridge on the water of Killarow near the Walk-Mill is very necessary , and should be built as soon as possible and made so sufficient that Horses may pass . |
| 9 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 10 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
| 11 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 12 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |
| 13 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 14 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 15 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 16 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 17 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 18 | Her step , which had begun in unaccustomed buoyancy , began to shrink ; soon , she was trudging round and round with dispirited tread , and her hanging head became so weary that her neighbour , Elisabetta , holding her by the arm , dug her elbow into Rosalba 's ribs to bring her to . |
| 19 | Matters became so serious that in August 1979 Sir Maurice Oldfield , the former Chief of MI6 — and model for John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley — was sent to Northern Ireland to cover the differences between MI6 , MI5 , Army intelligence and the RUC . |
| 20 | Their relationship became so serious that , according to at least one account , he asked her to marry him . |
| 21 | However , the August fishing became so appalling that my companion and I decided to try a week in May . |
| 22 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 23 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 24 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 25 | Attacks on individuals became so frequent that there were notably fewer people on the streets after dark then was usual . |
| 26 | Supplies became so critical that by March 3rd several batteries of howitzers had to be withdrawn altogether . |
| 27 | The label sponsored Fulchester United in Viz for a year , only pulling out when Viz became so successful that Go ! |
| 28 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 29 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 30 | ‘ I spoke to Robert — he called Dawn and she became so hysterical that I could n't understand her . |