Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 2 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 3 | All Frizingley knew it , even his mother who had grown so incensed about Linnet 's poverty that she would have poisoned her if she could . |
| 4 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 5 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 6 | For example , asked to draw accurately a triangle with all the sides 6 cm long , 52 per cent of the boys were judged to have done so compared with 30 per cent of the girls . |
| 7 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 8 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 9 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 10 | Some local authorities continued to engage outside contractors but others that had done so reverted to in-house provision . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | I do n't think I 'd ever felt so taxed in my career . |
| 13 | Robyn had not felt so exalted since the great women 's rally at Greenham Common . |
| 14 | With nearly thirty years in the force Wycliffe had rarely felt so shamed by others . |
| 15 | Daisy , having taken a fortnight 's holiday to drive Perdita around in yet another hired car , had never felt so shattered in her life . |
| 16 | She wore a white muslin dress because , with her long black hair , white was thought so striking on her . |
| 17 | Here it is enough to note the invariable practice of including in a partnership agreement ( Clause 26 ) a provision which requires an outgoing partner , or his representatives , to join in a continuation election under s113 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 upon being requested so to do by the continuing partners . |
| 18 | that have got so involved in that . |
| 19 | I had got so used to the straight criss-crossing North-South , East-West roads of most American cities that I would have to acquire a taste for the more complex and possibly much more fascinating spread of London lanes . |
| 20 | We have got so used to untold wrath and destruction , but now God again brings water gushing from the rock , and the people are saved . |
| 21 | Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music . |
| 22 | Some of their comments , it 's like the untutored eye , they pick out things that surprise you because you 've got so used to a particular manner of approaching images , that you forget that there are other ways of doing it . |
| 23 | Three so number of columns three , and I 'm not quite sure how many rows we want , how many questions we get on a page but perhaps try for thirty something like that , okay okay , now table is n't showing , go to view , oh , go to tables sorry table and you see grid lines is not clicked so click on grid lines , and if the table does n't show that 's usually why . |
| 24 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 25 | At the same time , we have still a great deal of development work to do to make the bilingualism which has become so accepted in other language fields directly applicable to deaf education . |
| 26 | She had become so attuned to the seisms of his feelings she could see that he wanted to hit her . |
| 27 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 28 | Whether banks should have become so involved in such financial flows is an issue for debate among academics , bankers , finance ministers and official agencies . |
| 29 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 30 | The method has become so ensconced in public law thought that today we seem incapable of recognizing any work which predates Dicey ; it is as though he invented the subject . |