Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary later confessed to Leith that seeing Travis looking so haggard had really got to her . |
| 2 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 3 | Through increased consumption per capita , through the development of markets for refined sugar among Russia 's clients in Third World countries , and with assistance from other Communist countries Russia not only solved the problem of absorbing the portion of the Cuban crop formerly taken by the United States , but did so in the context both of a resumption after 1964 of the upward movement in its home production and of a contractual willingness to buy far more Cuban sugar than Castro has so far produced for the Russian market . |
| 4 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 5 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 6 | Alabama filed a federal lawsuit to block the plan , saying development along its eastern border would suffer if Atlanta took so much water . |
| 7 | If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature . |
| 8 | Give them my command to let the boy win his spurs , for if God has so ordained it , I wish the day to be his and the honour to go to him and those in whose charge I have placed him . ’ |
| 9 | The linesman said it must have been accidental , because Linighan looked so ‘ surprised ’ . |
| 10 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 11 | Wooed from being European marketing director of Coca-Cola , Hogan was then , and remains now , the architect of FI 'S promotional side , if only because Marlboro controls so great a proportion of the FI budget : through direct sponsorship of its teams , through individual contracts with drivers , through sponsorship of races , through general advertising , through supporting the press , through the general glamorizing of the sport . |
| 12 | The game lasted three days mainly because Sampson batted so well and for five hours , making 81 ( 68 runs with the bat and 13 wides ) . |
| 13 | It was her job to do this , because Martha bruised so easily . |
| 14 | Well , if I did , that was because Abu took so long . |
| 15 | He left home on the word of promise ; he was prepared to sacrifice his son because God said so ; and his trust in God was estimated in terms of relationship to God . |
| 16 | If I am particularly hard on Chailly here it is because Schoenberg suffers so often from performances of this kind , and he so needs interpreters who understand the spirit behind the notes . |
| 17 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 18 | Potter is staring because Keith looks so dishevelled , as if he had n't slept or even combed his hair . |
| 19 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 20 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 21 | In 1956 , Surridge 's last year , Surrey became the first county to beat the Australians since Hampshire did so in 1912 . |
| 22 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 23 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 24 | He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee . |
| 25 | Whether the boy understood what father said , or whether Ramsey did so , is more doubtful . |
| 26 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 27 | Most Smiths fans are good old carnivores and unlikely to give up meat just 'cos Morrissey says so . |
| 28 | When Melanie said so to her aunt , the older woman scribbled : ‘ Those are the de luxe models , these are the standards . |
| 29 | There , as Blair had so persuasively pointed out to Sloane , he diligently tilled his soil to cultivate the beautiful flowers and shrubs of which , in later writings , his own appreciation was always apparent . |
| 30 | As Cora-Beth had so truly argued , they were engaged and it could not be so wrong to anticipate their actual marriage . |