Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 2 | She strangled the reply which so nearly escaped her lips . |
| 3 | Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ? |
| 4 | The need to guard against desertion had considerable influence even on the development of tactics ; and governments naturally made efforts to repress a practice which so obviously threatened the strength and morale of their armies . |
| 5 | That comment under-estimates the growing interest which shareholders are beginning to take in the wider responsibilities of the companies they invest in ( eg , support for arts , education , health , environment or indeed anything which contributes to an increase in the quality of life ) , and its cynicism can only alienate the executives whose involvement in their companies ' patronage we so badly need to encourage and applaud . |
| 6 | With his share he would be able to get the gymnasium he so badly wanted . |
| 7 | If Mr Jenkins cared to explain his view that the Falklands has a rentier economy to the hard-working farmers and workers of the Islands , he might get the punch in the mouth he so richly deserves . |
| 8 | Even the Nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine , Sir Charles Sherrington , dedicated his prize-winning speech to Alexander 's work , but even to this day Alexander has not really received the recognition he so richly deserves . |
| 9 | This word , together with ‘ in me ’ , appear in every quatrain serving to establish the very personal relationship of the two concerned , evoking an ambience of intimacy which so rightly suits the theme of old age and approaching death . |
| 10 | Both the androgynous evasion of sexual difference , and the psychoanalytic insistence on it , disavow the homoerotic knowledge of its other side ( s ) and the perverse dynamic which so radically implicates masculine and feminine not only within each other but , much more disturbingly , with what each excludes . |
| 11 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 12 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 13 | This desire has shewn itself in some minds in the advocacy of the introduction of some new style especially marking our own age , in others in the wish to see the Architecture which so especially belongs to our own and immediately neighbouring Countries , — and which for some classes of buildings has already been so completely revived , — adapted to the especial requirements of our own times and all the inventions habits and comforts incident to them . |
| 14 | He moves in with the cunningness and surety of a wild cat which so far has only played with its victims . |
| 15 | That sentence from the Red Consultative Document provides the clue to the major misunderstanding which so often links those with very different views . |
| 16 | Whatever the reason , repeated tests have shown that the inclusion of sufficient dietary fibre in meals prevents the excessive output of insulin which so often leads to hunger and snack-eating on diets in which the carbohydrates are processed and refined . |
| 17 | And that today Jean still resorts to cutting herself , reflects her basic lack of self-esteem , as well as her need to try to ‘ reach ’ someone who will be able to give her the help she so desperately needs . |
| 18 | Oh , Charles dear , this is an honour you so richly deserve . |
| 19 | She was so afraid of losing this heaven-sent opportunity , yet she did n't know how to ask the question she so desperately needed to ask . |
| 20 | We are able to give them the independence they so badly need , and with it self respect and dignity . |
| 21 | If only they 'd had as much sex as Pulp , this childish dry wank might have half a hint of the lascivious , mobile intercourse it so pathetically promises . |
| 22 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 23 | I can not help thinking that the booby who so completely misses the point of the question is often actuated by some hidden ( and mistaken ) motive of self-preservation . |
| 24 | I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself . |
| 25 | ‘ Of the ugliness you so helpfully mention . |
| 26 | The period you so fondly remember was dominated by activist and economically unschooled regulators and judges . |
| 27 | ‘ Thomas Erceldoun , the squire you so closely questioned on the night of our banquet . |
| 28 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 29 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 30 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |