Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I vomited twice , ’ he remarked , ‘ and I think I am going to do so again . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 3 | Simpler systems do n't attempt as much , but are not going to fail so badly , ’ said an analyst with the Centre for Defence Information , Mr Steve Kosiak . |
| 4 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 5 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 6 | However , most people aiming to shed surplus weight are also aiming to do so reasonably swiftly . |
| 7 | Hyacinth was what David Swan 's mother would have called ‘ a bonny lass ’ and David was beginning to think so too . |
| 8 | ‘ But it was n't two teenagers getting married so quickly , it was two grownups , well into their thirties . |
| 9 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 10 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 11 | Having come so far in just 3 years , the suggestion is that success might come sooner rather than later . |
| 12 | The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight . |
| 13 | Having digressed so far , I can not resist going a little further . |
| 14 | She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too . |
| 15 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
| 16 | Now hospital chiefs are planning to group some wards closer together to save doctors having to walk so far . |
| 17 | But having got so far , she could not leave it there . |
| 18 | Having got so far it might be of interest to work out the variation of surface-charge density on one of the cylinders as a function of |
| 19 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 20 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 21 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 22 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 23 | ‘ Even after all my years in the game , I 'm still surprised we lost having played so well . ’ |
| 24 | Having to deal so suddenly |
| 25 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 26 | Having doubted so deeply , such Christians are only surprised that other people , whether pagan or Christian , have believed so easily . |
| 27 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
| 28 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 29 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 30 | She could n't quite get there on her own , not with having to lie so still and make no noise . |