Example sentences of "[adj] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becoming officially pregnant so late means that many girls do not attend antenatal classes or clinic appointments , they carry on smoking and drinking , and probably eating food that is not particularly healthy . |
| 2 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 3 | As the daughter , Margo Gunn is somewhat expressionless and William Armstrong as her brother at times inaudible so emotionally choked is his delivery . |
| 4 | There is in fact little evidence that coping responses play a role in the aetiology of major psychiatric disorder since it has not been possible so far to conduct experiments . |
| 5 | Everyone 's body is different so just do what you feel you are able to do , without ever straining . |
| 6 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 7 | A stuff sack should be used to carry your bag in a rucksack , but stuff sacks are rarely waterproof so always put the whole lot inside a polythene bag . |
| 8 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 9 | Remember when colouring eggs that egg shells are porous so only use edible or non-toxic paints and colourings if you want to eat the egg after it 's decorated . |
| 10 | The foregoing should help to explain why the British so persistently entertained the improbable notion that the Masai were ‘ loyal ’ : the wish was father to the thought . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 12 | She assumed the air of sang-froid so well known to her acquaintances back in England . |
| 13 | I am 11 years old so please help in any way you can . |
| 14 | Some colleagues are giving me some messages to read out it would n't be appropriate to do so today because colleagues they er forget them , so I 'm gon na do them tomorrow which will be more appropriate so please do n't think that I 've er forgotten them . |
| 15 | Mm it 's been very thrilling so far has n't it ? |
| 16 | twenty million college goes up in flames , Bacon 's burning , come evaluation , which do you think the most effective so far repeat , what was it ? goodness gracious great balls of fire , fire fire Bacon 's college ablaze , it 's hot in the kitchen , and yours were |
| 17 | Wet hair tends to stretch and break and is very vulnerable so never use a bristle brush on hair when wet . |
| 18 | Pope has commented that it is hard not to detect in Ælfric 's statement in Wyrdwriteras that we sceolon secan æt Gode sylfum urne ræd mid anrædum mode ( we should seek our counsel from God himself with unanimous spirit ) " an allusion to the unræd so unhappily associated with Ethelred " . |
| 19 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 20 | Hence the importance attached by some communist theoreticians to the issue of mass participation within the party and the dismay expressed by generations of dissidents that the party control of the state which the early Marxist-Leninists had thought so important so easily degenerated into the substitution of one autonomous bureaucracy by another equally immune to democratic control and accountability . |
| 21 | The applicants wish to know the nature and extent of their receivership powers as a matter of practical importance and pressing nature , because they have been unable so far to obtain any assistance from the directors of I.B.C. as to the location of books and records of I.B.C. , or as to the provision of information about its assets . |
| 22 | Portsmouth then had a good spell , they forced two successive corners but the half ended with United so almost scoring . |
| 23 | The bronzes that the Chinese so eagerly collected came from burials and were usually covered in a fine green patina . |
| 24 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 25 | The weight-conscious so often choose the most fattening dishes on the menu , in the mistaken idea that they were being virtuous . |
| 26 | ‘ His performance was amazing , ’ he confessed , ‘ I have never heard anyone who has taken to Welsh so recently master the language so well . ’ |
| 27 | This is all pretty arbitrary so please let me know how you feel . |
| 28 | Why do the bad so often ruin the good ? |
| 29 | Some books become such classics that they run on into innumerable editions and impressions , with the original so much extended , altered and corrected that there is scarcely a vestige of it left . |
| 30 | he says just wait a minute I 'll just get everything ready so just come in when your ready so they walks in |