Example sentences of "[pron] so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 2 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 3 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 4 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 5 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 6 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 7 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 8 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 9 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 10 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 11 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 12 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 13 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 14 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 15 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |
| 16 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 17 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 18 | Often people are unclear themselves about their motives for doing something so even if you question them you may not reveal the real motive . |
| 19 | There is no difficulty in this whatsoever so long as you keep the silver piece level with the needles . |
| 20 | I was surprised that Madame expressed herself so warmly when she spoke of Nissim . |
| 21 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Dalrymple 's son Joe said the gunmen had been prepared to shoot anybody so long as they were Catholics . |
| 23 | Hamlet treats her so badly because he is angry at her lack of willpower against Claudius , the man he hates . |
| 24 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 25 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 26 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 27 | ‘ I hit her so hard because she was choking me . |
| 28 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 29 | She missed her so dreadfully when she was away , as though a part of her very own body was missing . |
| 30 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |