Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 2 | It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge . |
| 3 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 4 | The Reichmanns , for their part , seemed astounded that bankers who had brought them so far should desert them in their hour of need . |
| 5 | Dawn 's words re-echoed in her mind , in spite of the fact that Robert had derided them so vehemently , and she felt that she must always be on her guard . |
| 6 | There were nine of them in the whaler — Talbot , Van Gelder , the two divers , McKenzie and the four seamen who had rowed them so far . |
| 7 | He saw himself , ten years on , a querulous old man complaining in self-pity : What company have my children ever been to me ? — and forgetting that he had sent them so lightly away from him , Blanche across the sea to Heidelberg , to a husband she had never seen ; Philippa , possibly , to remote Denmark ; Thomas , only this Spring , to be titular governor and keep his court in Ireland , and try to make good the wrack and ruin of castles and garrisons there . |
| 8 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 9 | The really insidious and mischievous phrases are the well-established ones that come to mind unbidden because we have heard them so often . |
| 10 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 11 | ‘ Their lifting at the line-out is out of the ark and the English players who have met them so far are frustrated about the amount of ball they are allowed to win on the floor . ’ |
| 12 | But , of course , many of our means of communication are instinctive and we have practised them so frequently since childhood that we choose the means of encoding a message almost without thought . |