Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're in a hall playing badminton or something so too far away and a lot of shouting and laughing all at once . |
| 2 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 3 | Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be . |
| 4 | Flattered , even , that someone so utterly different and reserved had opened up to her , late-thirties dyke pottering around to nowhere . |
| 5 | Is n't it marvellous that she so well |
| 6 | But in Crathie Church next Saturday , the only concern should be that Anne is finding the joy that she so richly deserves . |
| 7 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 8 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the very next day that you so inconveniently smashed up my car — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What is the matter , you Christian men , that you so greatly esteeme so little portion of golde more than your own quietnesse … |
| 11 | The wildlife that we so carelessly destroy has as much right to be on the planet as us and should be respected — we still have much to learn about them . |
| 12 | The idea that something so apparently soft and harmless has pain-inflicting daggers on the ends of the feet is enough to disturb certain infants and to make them distrust the approaches of all felines . |
| 13 | They have suffered a terrible ordeal , and it is my sincere hope that they will find the peace of mind that they so richly deserve . |
| 14 | So we waited five long years before we could go in daylight , find the oil , and deny the Luftwaffe and the tank crews of the substance that they so desperately needed . |
| 15 | The aim of this chapter is to question the subject matter that they so confidently explored , for it is by no means clear what we mean when we raise the prospect of ‘ a history of sexuality ’ . |
| 16 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 17 | Although he so obviously loved her , waited on her hand and foot , thought almost entirely of and for her , there was a tiny part of him which eluded her . |
| 18 | The insect can now spend the calories that it so assiduously collected and stored when it was a larva . |
| 19 | If teachers in substantial numbers are not going to be ready , willing and able to speak their minds , complete with all their doubts and uncertainties , who else is going to give the debate the greater depth and breadth that it so urgently needs ? |
| 20 | The preparation of a claim should not be the chore that it so often becomes . |
| 21 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 22 | Was it because he had lost his own parents during his teens that he so desperately wanted a family ? |
| 23 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |
| 24 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 25 | Karelius talked mainly with Moreau , reflecting on the irony that he so often found the French easier to talk to than Austrians . |
| 26 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 27 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 28 | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me . |
| 29 | A senior World Health Organisation envoy , Sir Donald Acheson , said in Zagreb that the situation in Srebrenica was ‘ a horror at least one degree worse than anything so far experienced in Bosnia ’ . |
| 30 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |