Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't , would you ? ’ he asked , his eyes so pleading that Leith , aware that he was asking her to ring Rosemary and then pass the phone over to him , had no thought to refuse . |
| 2 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 3 | Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ? |
| 4 | Performance is measured against objectives so ensuring that the contract is fulfilled . |
| 5 | The nation where this debate is being launched has just emerged , in the spring of 1974 , from a confrontation between Government and unions so destabilizing that some people had been daily expecting to see tanks in Whitehall . |