Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 3 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 4 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 5 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 6 | Things have altered so much now . |
| 7 | ‘ Because the murders were committed so close together we are looking into possible links between the two . ’ |
| 8 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 9 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 10 | Hence the importance attached by some communist theoreticians to the issue of mass participation within the party and the dismay expressed by generations of dissidents that the party control of the state which the early Marxist-Leninists had thought so important so easily degenerated into the substitution of one autonomous bureaucracy by another equally immune to democratic control and accountability . |
| 11 | We 've had so many over . |
| 12 | I mean I , I can see why you 're going out but it 's , you know I need , I need to have a night in I mean I 've done , I 've had so many stupidly late nights . |
| 13 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 14 | Sad to see a skilled worker being offered so little yet amused that people like me on Employment Action and Employment Training only receive 20p per hour after deductions for travel costs . |
| 15 | I 'm go and see got so much fucking work to do . |
| 16 | And would I have got so much just from a voice ? |
| 17 | But er I think , people that have got so much now feel they have n't got enough . |
| 18 | I 've got so much bloody , I hate having so much stuff in my pockets it really really does annoy me . |
| 19 | I 've got so much bloody reading to do . |
| 20 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's got so heavy here . |
| 22 | The passion that I have foolishly boasted so much about . |
| 23 | But their relationship had become so close over the last few months that even this advice did not see , all the 'surrealistic " to Sullivan . |
| 24 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |
| 25 | The Kleinwort analysts believe that the group 's accelerating cash generation will attract increased market attention now that all companies ' earnings have become so volatile under FRS 3 reporting . |
| 26 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 27 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 28 | With relegation to Division Two almost certain Ipswich might well relax and find their goal-scoring touch which has proved so elusive so far . |
| 29 | ‘ Indeed , it was one of the many subjects … time , Amaryllis … but you have driven so much out of my thoughts . |
| 30 | She and Brian had been meaning to explore the area at weekends , but there had always seemed so much else to do . |