Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 2 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 3 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 4 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 5 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 6 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 7 | In these meetings , students come together to discuss a defined topic , whose main points are put forward by one of their own number ; the staff members who attend do so not to teach but to play a part in guiding the discussion . |
| 8 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 9 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 10 | They wo n't have to travel so far to work . |
| 11 | She was not a garish poster girl or the kind of woman you see on magazine covers , shellacked into bookstall anonymity , but she was much closer to that real yet elusive image those boringly and indeed obscenely ubiquitous categories of commerce keep striving so unsuccessfully to represent . |
| 12 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 13 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 14 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 15 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 16 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 17 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 18 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 19 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 20 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 21 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 22 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |