Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 2 | It is not going to disappear like so many initiatives that start well but fade away . |
| 3 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 4 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 5 | As the other side of Russell 's artistic coin , it is intriguing to come across so many interesting and unexpected ‘ truisms ’ or Plattitudes . |
| 6 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 7 | She ‘ ran away ’ to London in order to get sleep and rest and not have to talk to so many people every day . ’ |
| 8 | Already , the basics of camcorder operation are becoming routine , and any initial uncertainties on how to cope with so many different control buttons are evaporating . |
| 9 | ‘ It made it unnecessarily complex having to deal with so many . ’ |
| 10 | I 've had to sleep with so many since this began . |
| 11 | She knew she would not be able to sleep with so much tantalizing information spinning in her mind . |
| 12 | But now that football has to compete with so many other attractions , good results and big names are demanded as the price of continued loyalty . |
| 13 | She was afraid to believe in so much happiness all at once . |
| 14 | What then will happen to those ‘ little ’ things you want to cling to so much ? |
| 15 | I happened to chair that conference , and I think I was surprised by the depressing effect that this reform was seen to hold for so many of our membership , particularly the smaller , local voluntary organisations . |
| 16 | He did n't want her to die like so many babies did . |
| 17 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 18 | Some names have already been mentioned but it is possible to think of so many : of Mr Tommy and Mr Bobbie Reynolds and their work in choir and Sunday School , of the dignified and gracious figures of Mr and Mrs T H Watson ( parents of the Reverend George Watson ) , of Mr W A Mullen DL and his son Mr Cecil Mullen , generous and energetic benefactors of the church in so many ways , of Mr R J Magowan OBE JP for over 40 years secretary of the Trustees , of the brothers Mr Herbie and Mr David McClatchey , their service as Trustees and members of the choir , of Mr David Lyttle , Mr Norman Lyttle and Mr Sammy Lyttle , active in all aspects of the church 's life but especially concerned with choir and Sunday Schools of Mr Willie Holmes and his daughters Winnie and Amy , of Mr David Lamb and his family , of Mr Twinem Jackson , who , with Mr Magowan , still had time to give years of public service to the community at large in Portadown , of Mr C J McKinley , concerned with the Building Fund over the years and Superintendent of the morning Sunday School from 1943 to the 1960s , of Mrs Sleator with her wholehearted love for the church and for people , of Mr Bertie Montgomery , always cheerful and serene , who , among so many other things , began the practice of taping the services for the benefit of the elderly and housebound , of M Alfred Shortt and his long and generous association with the Sunday School , or Mr Dan Humphries , helping over the years with the church 's finances , of members of the Calvert and Hardy families and of those who , belonging to other Societies , nevertheless gave years of service to Edenderry — Mr Sam Robinson , Mr Joseph Cranston , Mr John Curry , Mr James Mullen , Mr W J Green , Mr Isaac Holland , Mr Eric Walker , and Mr William Bustard . |
| 19 | It made Ianthe uncomfortable to think of so many people living alone . |
| 20 | She wanted to lie there in the dark , alone with the thoughts she had had to suppress for so much of the day . |
| 21 | It was at this point , while we were stumbling about , not really knowing what to say with so many other people present , that Eric suggested we should borrow a driver and jeep from the ASC — this boy was the biggest borrower of jeeps I had ever met — and set off for Fontanellato , where we could all be reunited : my parents , the Merlis , the Superiora and the suore at the hospital , and as many of the other people who had helped him as possible , including Dr Sambataro , of whom there had been no news since he joined the partisans . |