Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 2 | With relegation to Division Two almost certain Ipswich might well relax and find their goal-scoring touch which has proved so elusive so far . |
| 3 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 4 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 5 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 6 | I think she 's erm they like take so much out of her pension but she 's not gon na need owt any way and then erm I think government or whatever put rest . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 8 | And would I have got so much just from a voice ? |
| 9 | They 'd have to give so much away . |
| 10 | How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ? |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 12 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 13 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 14 | I 've got so much bloody , I hate having so much stuff in my pockets it really really does annoy me . |
| 15 | I 've got so much bloody reading to do . |
| 16 | Hence the importance attached by some communist theoreticians to the issue of mass participation within the party and the dismay expressed by generations of dissidents that the party control of the state which the early Marxist-Leninists had thought so important so easily degenerated into the substitution of one autonomous bureaucracy by another equally immune to democratic control and accountability . |
| 17 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 18 | We 've had so many over . |
| 19 | I mean I , I can see why you 're going out but it 's , you know I need , I need to have a night in I mean I 've done , I 've had so many stupidly late nights . |
| 20 | But their relationship had become so close over the last few months that even this advice did not see , all the 'surrealistic " to Sullivan . |
| 21 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 22 | It had seemed so straightforward then . |
| 23 | ‘ And here 's some extra to get your car cleaned after I 've dripped so much on to it . ’ |
| 24 | I 've read so much tonight , . |
| 25 | I 've read so many now , I get confused . |
| 26 | Things have altered so much now . |
| 27 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 28 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 29 | I 'm go and see got so much fucking work to do . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's got so heavy here . |