Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 2 | Among the areas of technical interest is the evaluation of GIS software when used with zonal datasets , particularly since this form of information is far more common in the social sciences and ‘ the real world ’ than are the digital mapping and remote sensing datasets for which GIS is most highly developed so far . |
| 3 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 4 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 5 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 6 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 7 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 8 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 9 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 10 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 11 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 12 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 13 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 14 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 15 | In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly . |
| 16 | He wanted her and she wanted him but … she could n't think straight … she was confused … it had all happened so quickly , too quickly . |
| 17 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 18 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 19 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 20 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 21 | Bureaucracy , which was so brilliantly analysed so long ago by Max Weber ( 1922 ) , is based on legal-style directives and rational — though slow — procedures . |
| 22 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 23 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 24 | Changes have occurred but they have generally done so gradually over much longer intervals than changes of government — in part as a result of changes in official thinking , in larger part through alterations in the complex relationships between economic ideas , political ideology and the force of economic circumstance . |
| 25 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 26 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 27 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 28 | In February 1960 , the Cabinet agreed to write off the £60 million already spent so far on Blue Streak , and to seek an alternative delivery system for British nuclear warheads . |
| 29 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 30 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |