Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why are the birds singing so strangely ? |
| 2 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 3 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | With the war going so well now , and with the perceptible decline in the workload after the feats of ‘ 44 , and with the general burgeoning of confidence and well-being , why , your camp doctor is agreeably surprised to find time and leisure to pursue his hobbies . |
| 5 | The NIAAF recognise that with the meeting coming so early in the track and field season the next few weeks are going to be hectic , with so many of Britain 's top athletes having just returned to these shores after sunshine training abroad … so the booking of Jarrett is a tremendous ‘ start ’ . |
| 6 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 7 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 8 | Some in the low-lying places , who were heavily asleep , did drown as they lay , the water gathering so rapidly in every hollow . |
| 9 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 10 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 11 | She stretched with remembered delight , then turned to look at the man lying so quietly next to her . |
| 12 | At a time of so much egocentric materialism it 's refreshing to see the NI fighting so effectively for imaginative humanitarianism . " |
| 13 | He finds the lessons boring so obviously they 're gon na mess about . |
| 14 | When speaking to Scots about Scotland , Mr Major 's words carried a conviction and a passion lacking so often in the Tory campaign . |
| 15 | Yesterday Mr Kinnock presented a picture of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ . |
| 16 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |