Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll be policed so heavily there will be no extra work for us . ’ |
| 3 | At a recent rugby jamboree in Kimberley the unification of these two bodies was formally completed so now it is up to the various officials and administrators to make the new South African Rugby Football Union really work . |
| 4 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 5 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 6 | They found the windows of their rooms frozen so hard they could not close them , and the players took their pre-match sleep with snow on the bedroom floor . |
| 7 | Graptolites , trilobites , and dinosaurs are all extinct , and so in the examples we have considered so far there is no direct recourse to the study of living animals to help us bring our fossils back to life . |
| 8 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
| 9 | And then another weird thing — wan na hear about my playground ? — there were all these coffins from the cemetery and the ground had eroded so much they were coming out . |
| 10 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 11 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 12 | kind of if you do , if you do manage to get some , some feedback on some of the stuff you 've done so far it may turn out that it was n't as bad as all that , you know |
| 13 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 14 | Suddenly I have a great urge to tell you about it , knowing that you will understand as you have suffered so terribly yourself . |
| 15 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 16 | As motion twenty seven has said so clearly it 's the members ' money . |
| 17 | Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD . |
| 18 | From what has been said so far it is obvious that good interview schedules are important tools for the fieldworker . |
| 19 | From what I have said so far it may sound as if the Prague School did no more than restate the Russian Formalists ' theories in more systematic language . |
| 20 | I am not entirely clear in my own mind what that last sentence really means , but from what I have written so far you can readily see that the movement towards Euthanasia is to the fore . |
| 21 | ‘ But KITS has expanded so fast we 're permanently short of capital . |
| 22 | A woman died and a passenger was injured so badly he will be paraplegic for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | On the evidence I 've seen so far I rather doubt that . ’ |
| 24 | Unlike previous Dizzy outings it retails at £9.99 , but from what we 've seen so far it 'll be worth it . |
| 25 | For men who 've seen so much they 'd rather forget , this at least , was a day to remember |
| 26 | Well , you wo certainly would have thought so today I must admit but erm he er , no he , he in fact did a couple of good works when he was here . |
| 27 | Rooted so deep it 's in danger of the tree falling on its unknowing pig head . |
| 28 | Some are true , some are false , most have been embroidered in the interests of enjoyment and several have been told so often they are part of the apocryphal armada of football . |
| 29 | It is possible to study electromagnetic theory without ever mentioning the word electron , but since it has become such a household word and is used so often we can just as well make use of it . |
| 30 | Many recreation items such as caravans and boats that are on hire purchase are used so seldom they could be rented over the course of the hire purchase scheme and with enough cash left over to buy the item new if we still wanted one . |