Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 2 | Doubtless there will be some who will argue that attempting to change structures is less important than trying to convince those who exercise power in our society to do so responsibly or that in any case radical changes in structures are politically impossible . |
| 3 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 4 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 5 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 6 | There , climbing a tree , you ruined your frock and dropped the letter , which a stranger read and tore so badly that when you did get to the post it was n't fit to send . |
| 7 | I asked Dick if there were any surprises for him about the aircraft and he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised that this Allison machine ran so smoothly and that the power band was as wide and it was . |
| 8 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 9 | The train seemed to travel so quickly and when another Inter-City passed by going the other way , seemingly only inches away , I thought that here was Armageddon ! |