Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's such a shame because the team has done so well on the pitch and manager Barry Fry is trying to do his best . |
| 2 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 3 | This section has concentrated so far on metals , reflecting the interest in metal patinas , but other materials also develop distinctive surfaces over time and some work has been done both by fakers to replicate them and investigators to differentiate the fake from the genuine . |
| 4 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 5 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 6 | ‘ Our thanks go to everybody who has worked so hard on this project since 1988 . ’ |
| 7 | For she could not have risen so far on her own . |
| 8 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 9 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 10 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 11 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 12 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |
| 13 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 14 | Do n't run it back cos a I 've got so far on it . |
| 15 | He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions he became fully fledged climber . |
| 16 | He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions that he became a fully — fledged climber . |
| 17 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 18 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 19 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 20 | No doubt that was why Maman had insisted so rashly on seeing Anderson . |
| 21 | 1981 ) have done so largely on the basis of comparing the known terrible effects of nuclear weapons with the key underlying principles of the laws of war . |
| 22 | In considering mentally disordered people 's needs , we have focused so far on the individual rather than on the family . |
| 23 | Most studies on anorectal function have focused so far on solid stool incontinence , which is probably the worse form . |
| 24 | Secondly , I am impressed by the way in which my right hon. Friends have negotiated so positively on some aspects of the treaties , while at the same time drawing the line so firmly with our European partners on those parts of the treaties that we can not accept . |
| 25 | Those who have worked so diligently on this exotic machine should be congratulated for bringing such a magnificent spectacle to the preservation world . |