Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] and " in BNC.

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1 I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’
2 I 'm not very good at listening to God , but between one and three am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do ) .
3 When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free …
4 Horrible that you should tempt me so heartlessly and — and pity me , ’ he spat at her .
5 They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I …
6 What happened under Winchelsey in 1297–1305 endangered both church and realm , threatening to sever them so sharply and deeply that the church would end up a wholly dependent , deeply suspected and despised branch of royal government .
7 I needed you so badly and all you ever did to me was cut me down at the knees . ’
8 ‘ You realize , ’ he said as they ascended , ‘ that if you 're ever tempted to breathe a word of what you see here the Society will eradicate you so quickly and so thoroughly your mother wo n't even know you existed ? ’
9 The cult of monarchy which they so strenuously and even sometimes grotesquely encouraged made very good political sense ; it was a visual demonstration of monarchy as in theory envisaged , and therefore a substantial basis for monarchy as in practice exercised .
10 So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far .
11 If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness .
12 There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law .
13 Yet I loved her so much and not a day goes past without a thought of her .
14 We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home .
15 He loves her so much and what 's he going through now she has told him she has a child by another man ? ’
16 I think the thing you have to say that as far as I 'm concerned , from what I 've see of her so far and I have n't worked with her in the field yet but far brighter spark in your department than that one we interviewed the other day
17 How could she , even fleetingly , entertain such a thought for a man who despised her so deeply and so openly ?
18 She tutted aloud as she remembered she had nearly quailed altogether and quit him when he caressed her so directly and bit her ; but he was masterful , and had knowledge , and her love burst into ever greater intensity at the thought of that expertise .
19 He was looking down at her so fondly and with such deep understanding that she was encouraged to go on .
20 It had n't occurred to him that all those years Alice , who had looked after him so persistently and unobtrusively , should have had no one to look after her .
21 She loved him so desperately and she knew he loved her , but maybe not enough .
22 We knew him so well and so when the time came and we saw how he was playing and how he was hitting the ball , that he could beat anyone ’ .
23 After two years , he was judged to have learnt sufficient skills , and was apprenticed to a Plymouth shoe maker who treated him so harshly and badly that he was re-admitted to the workhouse where he stayed until he was 19 years old .
24 It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit .
25 He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner .
26 She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened .
27 I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute .
28 For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow .
29 Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly .
30 Edberg sees the ball so early , hits it so sweetly and executes his shots so effectively , that one suspects that he could easily defy any West Indian or Australian pace attack .
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