Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 2 | ‘ I have to speak of things I wished so often to forget — of my guilt , of my shame . ’ |
| 3 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 4 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 5 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 6 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 7 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 8 | It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies . |
| 9 | Though you journey so far to see their ancient endeavours . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Although this fate , however tragic , would certainly be preferable to possible torture and execution , I know that Leslie himself , who volunteered so often to do something ‘ useful ’ , would have preferred to be killed actually fighting , like Bradford and Fenwick . |
| 12 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |
| 13 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 14 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 15 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 16 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 17 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 18 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 19 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |
| 20 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 21 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 22 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |