Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoy putting up a tent , I like campfires and food for me tastes so much better outside . |
| 2 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 3 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 4 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 5 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 6 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 7 | She turns me up , she looks so bleeding bored all day . " |
| 8 | Any more is a bonus because she looks so much better and I 'm really pleased . |
| 9 | In July Virginia Woolf , with her husband Leonard , paid the long-awaited visit which she describes so vividly in her diary . |
| 10 | She hopes so too , or she 'd not have written that note though she may not realize it yet . |
| 11 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 12 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |
| 13 | ( i ) " If she feels so strongly , she 'll decide against it . " |
| 14 | He smiled wickedly , ‘ And she moves so gracefully , too . ’ |
| 15 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 16 | Men have always been respectful of Hestia , the goddess of the hearth , easily intimidated by the mysteries she manipulates so easily . |
| 17 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 18 | The children ate hungrily , relaxing over the meal ; she must , thought Melanie , be nice if she cooks so well . |
| 19 | But Cara is so clever and she works so hard . |
| 20 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 21 | ‘ And that means it goes so fast you ca n't even hear the separate beats . |
| 22 | It goes so well with their pale skin and light hair . |
| 23 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 24 | It goes so much deeper than that . |
| 25 | Why is it that when Ken Livingstone ( Political column , 1 May ) , one of the wittiest sparks in the rather dullish firmament of contemporary Labour , leaves the safe sound-bite pages of the Sun and ventures his hand at joined-up paragraphs , he goes so badly awry ? |
| 26 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 27 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 28 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 29 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 30 | He drives so fast , ’ she said querulously . |