Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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1 | Still , a suspicion lingers that the gamekeeper 's grandson would like to be the laird , and I think it scandalous that Jackie 's rewards from a nation whose standard-bearer he has so long been , should be a mere OBE. |
2 | But the model he constructs ( and whose principles he expounds so clearly in his opening pages ) is not based on such rigorously maintained categories . |
3 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
4 | It was also then that Mr Kinnock showed the part of his personality he tries so hard to contain , whipping up the audience like a second-rate holiday camp entertainer . |
5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has so far received on his White Paper about reform of local government . |