Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 2 | The police spokesman added : ‘ It is incredible that someone should carry so much cash around with them and leave it in a car . |
| 3 | Carers and friends need to start where the person is at , and not wonder how it is that someone can seem so upset at the death of a pet and yet apparently unmoved by the untimely death of their spouse . |
| 4 | And in the morning nothing 'll seem so bad . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Somebody must think so , if they paid that much for it . ’ |
| 6 | Nobody could sit so still with her eyes open . |
| 7 | Commenting on the 72nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution , in the openly frank vein that is the hallmark of glasnost , Mr Prokhorov went on : ‘ Well , one may think so , looking at the industrial down-swing , inflation , transport malfunctions , coal miners ’ strikes and semi-barren shelves of shops . |
| 8 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |
| 9 | One might hope so , but the picture in figure 10.2 does not immediately support such optimism . |
| 10 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 11 | Looking at the proportional evidence from the Niemecz organs , one might just as well say that Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 Menuetto had been ‘ Haydnized ’ and one could say so the more properly chronologically , since Haydn was the earlier of the two composers to start describing quick tempos for his minuets . |
| 12 | One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon . |
| 13 | If one was asked to produce a summary of the kind of case into which the tribunal was intended to inquire one would do so by looking at the situations which the tribunal has to determine which are mentioned in the statute . |
| 14 | This is what , this is what we 're looking for , we 're not thinking now particularly about either what recommendation they , the jury foreman makes , or what sentence the judge passes , the fact is that the truth or one would hope so , has been established . |
| 15 | In two weeks everything will seem so easy to you . ’ |
| 16 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 17 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 18 | anybody will read so eight pages . |
| 19 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 20 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 21 | The play was in fact being written during the period which led to her committal in Northumberland House : " You would never imagine anyone could sink so quickly " is Harry 's comment on the death by drowning of his wife . |
| 22 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Luce whispered , unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman 's finger . |
| 24 | It simply was not fair that anyone could look so good in absolutely everything ! |
| 25 | However , before anyone could utter so much as a syllable , the air was rent by the beating sound of an approaching helicopter . |
| 26 | Who buys them ? ’ he asked , as though he could n't believe anyone would do so . |