Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think so never heard of it .
2 As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’
3 How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ?
4 So why did she feel so irresistibly drawn to him ?
5 ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said .
6 An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture .
7 Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again .
8 Love is the Grand Unified Force ; and , just as when we watch a good movie , we might become so emotionally involved that we forget it is ‘ only a movie ’ , it is our feelings which make life appear to be so real .
9 Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply .
10 When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient .
11 I did n't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches .
12 True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation .
13 Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes .
14 Well , it 'll perhaps improve when he does n't have so far to go wo n't it
15 Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter .
16 But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall .
17 It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation .
18 One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds .
19 Although I can recall so clearly seeing my father off to the war , and even more clearly the Zeppelin , the mid-twenties are not so clear .
20 So why does she continue so vociferously to float IWC moratoria , and adopt such a recalcitrant attitude towards an industry that is so obviously in decline ?
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