Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I had a terrible shock when you opened your eyes and looked so steadily at me .
2 Being considerate when passing walkers and doing so slowly .
3 ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘
4 It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education .
5 With few exceptions ( see below ) , all the haematological and biochemical values were normal at the start of the study and remained so throughout .
6 However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next .
7 The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition .
8 They set about an extensive programme of repair and renovation of the complex and have so far successfully restored one of the Clutterbuck water wheels , as well as a Tangye Compound Steam Engine ( plus a portable boiler ) , that formerly powered stick making machinery .
9 Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned .
10 That 's why Speedbird holidays give such pleasure and work so well .
11 Editor , — John Wright and Helen Ford describe the anguish and despair affecting many sub-Saharan African countries and made so much worse recently by drought .
12 But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself .
13 Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted .
14 He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted .
15 The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation .
16 The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer .
17 ‘ I wonder , ’ said Ian and laughed so genuinely that Julia was reassured .
18 How forego thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined , to live again in these wild woods forlorn .
19 This ‘ splendid isolation ’ was explicable twenty or even ten years ago when the field of humanities computing was so wide open and the methods appropriate to historical teaching and research so poorly developed .
20 If that is what he thinks , he should withdraw his tax plans and withdraw his minimum wage plans and do so today .
21 The manager of the recruiting bureau may or may not be present at the interview , but may be present when discussion takes place afterwards , or may have submitted a written report on the recruit 's attitudes and progress so far in the bureau .
22 On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace .
23 Another thousand pounds , if it could be obtained , would perhaps be sufficient for the building of a small Laboratory , and for the cleaning and repairs so urgently required both in the Schoolrooms and in the School house . "
24 ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it .
25 With the devoted assistance of several technical wizards we converted my A-frame into an alchemist 's chamber of optical and electronic apparatus with which to visualize the unseen dimensions of sound and form so often described by metaphysicians .
26 The inter-relationship of body and dress so self-consciously referred to in many of Kahlo 's most polemical works ( Fig. 12 ) has been strangely inverted by her current popularity .
27 Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) .
28 That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since .
29 ‘ Are you — ’ she began , but before she could finish , the little frog was leaping up and down , nodding its head and croaking so loudly that the girls were afraid someone would hear .
30 In 1908 the goods became a regular all-the- year-round service and remained so right up to 1951 .
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