Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 4 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ And the third man who … said he loved me … ’ and her voice faltered at the words ‘ … loved me so dearly that on hearing the slanders of my assailant he believed every word that he said , and none of mine . |
| 6 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 10 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 11 | Horrible that you should tempt me so heartlessly and — and pity me , ’ he spat at her . |
| 12 | She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’ |
| 13 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ You liked me so much that you walked out on me ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
| 16 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 17 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 18 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 19 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 20 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 22 | At least , Peter had found them disastrous , and he would find them so again if Anna chose to try and charm Colonel Richardson out of his opinion of working clergy wives . |
| 23 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 24 | But , of course , many of our means of communication are instinctive and we have practised them so frequently since childhood that we choose the means of encoding a message almost without thought . |
| 25 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 26 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 27 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 28 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 29 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 30 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |