Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trust Blanche to be thinking so far ahead . |
| 2 | What Firbas seems to be suggesting so far is that theme consists of context-dependent and rheme of context-independent items . |
| 3 | ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted . |
| 4 | It would surely be a directorship within a couple of years , less even if luck went his way and certainly it seemed to be doing so just now . |
| 5 | Other countries seemed to be doing so much better . |
| 6 | Many would love to know , for instance , whether there any clocks in the White House which show the time in Moscow , or Warsaw , or Budapest , because people wonder why Mr Bush and Company appear to be falling so far behind in their reaction to the pace of life in those cities . |
| 7 | ‘ Not seemly , ’ she observed , her eyes dancing with merriment , for a widow and her parish priest to be laughing so loudly in church at the expense of his parishioners ! |
| 8 | Manville put the contents of the two messages together and congratulated himself that things seemed to be going so well . |
| 9 | How about yourself , you 've settled well at United , though strangely when you were on loan everything seemed to be going so well did n't it , there were some good results coming . |
| 10 | Madeleine was too old , though , to be behaving so girlishly . |
| 11 | Rachel was relieved that everything seemed to be running so smoothly , not only with the setting up of the chat-line but with the new , easygoing atmosphere in the centre . |
| 12 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 13 | It felt strange to be working so close to their audiences . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been treated like a pin-cushion , but it seems to be working so far , ’ he said . |
| 15 | For a couple to be arguing so early in their relationship did not bode well for the future . |