Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 2 | In my investigations so far , I 've come across practitioners who could equally well be categorised as anthropologists , geographers , economists , sociologists and even philosophers . |
| 3 | I must stop using my words so carefully . |
| 4 | How could I commit such an offence when I really do love my parents so much ? |
| 5 | And he knew I did n't have to be home for the kids or whatever , he knew my circumstances so well and he knew th exactly how much he could use me you know . |
| 6 | I apologize for expressing my feelings so strongly to you then . |
| 7 | There 's a good girl , ’ he said , gripping my wrists so tightly it hurt . |
| 8 | I was duly surprised that the Fates had put the new putter in my hands so easily . |
| 9 | The principles of the NBS , brainchild of A1 Garden Aquaria 's Peter Oakes , were outlined in last month 's column , but little did I imagine that the device itself would be in my hands so soon afterwards , let alone up and running in time for this update . |
| 10 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 11 | Cos I thought he has n't taken any of my hints so far . |
| 12 | Now my remarks so far have concentrated on the relationships between our three sectors . |
| 13 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 14 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 15 | She had never met anyone who expressed her opinions so convincingly and who was so unfailingly wrong about everything as Evelyn . |
| 16 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 17 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 18 | One aspect of IBM Corp 's business has been in a state of suspended animation throughout its woes so far : its turnover has not declined significantly . |
| 19 | One aspect of IBM Corp 's business has been in a state of suspended animation throughout its woes so far : its turnover has not declined significantly . |
| 20 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 21 | Whether because of the thrill of stripping off her knickers so barbarously , or of having her helpless , he suddenly began to breathe quickly , and his prong swelled to working proportions . |
| 22 | Jezrael clenched her teeth so hard against the torment that her jaws shuddered , but she did n't cry out . |
| 23 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 24 | The tourism industry , Australia 's biggest foreign currency earner , is losing A$35m a day from the dispute , which would put its losses so far at almost A$1.5bn . |
| 25 | Perhaps science teachers should not attempt to cover their subjects so comprehensively . |
| 26 | And white shirts were very smart , really , and would look quite good when they had learned to cope with the board-stiff collars and not to knot their ties so tightly . |
| 27 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 28 | It is fair to say that the British extreme right has not been able to draw on specific traditions of activism that have assisted , say , the French FN or the Belgian VB in extending their influences so widely . |
| 29 | ‘ A challenge ? ’ she husked painfully , her eyes so wide she thought he must surely read the anguish in them . |
| 30 | She 'd had no idea that she was capable of behaving in such a passionate way , or of forgetting all her inhibitions so completely . |