Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much had happened so fast , and the man she loved was so far away . |
| 2 | She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs . |
| 3 | Yet this distinction is a relatively recent one : Isaac Newton , for example , would not have distinguished so clearly between physics and philosophy . |
| 4 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 5 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 6 | Whilst to begin with inevitable , Hodge and his colleagues need not have relied so heavily or for so long on Japanese personnel . |
| 7 | He remembered now , though would not have done so otherwise . |
| 8 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 9 | LADY DAVERS : Jackey , shut the door , my young lady and I must not have done so soon . |
| 10 | For she could not have risen so far on her own . |
| 11 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 12 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 13 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 14 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |
| 15 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 16 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 17 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 18 | ‘ We should not have come so far , ’ the thin man said . |
| 19 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 20 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 21 | Perhaps she ought not to have spoken so bluntly , even though he was asking for it . |
| 22 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 23 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 24 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 25 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 26 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 27 | May well have done so already . |
| 28 | If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend . |
| 29 | You really should n't have ventured so far , ’ she protested . |
| 30 | She should n't have moved so quickly . |