Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 2 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 3 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 4 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 5 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 6 | There can be little doubt that this reflects the very high unemployment experienced so far and the resultant weakened state of the union movement and of labour generally . |
| 7 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 8 | She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about . |
| 9 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 10 | It was definitely a case of two points lost , but I am more disappointed that we played so well and did not win . ’ |
| 11 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 12 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 13 | Laughter came so easily and loud that passing tourists looked at us strangely . |
| 14 | They came so far and then they stopped , looking confused and wary . |
| 15 | And even if you did , then who really wants to see tries scored so easily and so readily ? |
| 16 | Perhaps the murkiest issue of all — certainly an issue never addressed by the Bush administration — is why the US , after paying Noriega $1.2 million during the 1980s , when it clearly knew that Panama — headquarters for the formidable US Army Southern Command ( USASC ) that monitors all events in Central and Latin America — was a conduit for drugs , turned so suddenly and harshly against Noriega . |
| 17 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
| 18 | Since the war began , Soviet military commentators , including senior serving officers , have been expressing dismay at seeing Iraq 's army , most of whose tanks and aircraft they supplied , pounded so relentlessly and effectively . |
| 19 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 20 | The old fellow walked so slowly and he himself was late already . |
| 21 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 22 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 23 | This is the biggest amount raised so far but this year we hope to raise even more ’ . |
| 24 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 25 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 26 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 27 | Their rarity lies in the fact that he supposedly worked so rapidly and neatly that they were unnecessary . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |
| 29 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 30 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |