Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 32 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 33 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 34 | To an outsider visiting Imperial College , some of the departments seem so large as almost to prevent a sense of unity . |
| 35 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |
| 36 | When you exacerbate this situation by confronting him with direct questioning or something which intimidates him and causes him to feel even more nervous , his breathing can become so rapid and so shallow that it borders on hyperventilation . |
| 37 | It was actually against Brighton ( 10–1 ) , here at Selhurst Park on 3 January 1942 in a wartime London League match , but even so , there can be few , if any , other players whose careers began so early and so explosively . |
| 38 | THE cast list of the real-life royal soap opera is now getting so long and so complicated that all except its most avid followers can be forgiven for losing track . |
| 39 | His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive . |
| 40 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 41 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 42 | Cheltenham 's owners club has proved so popular and so successful thanks to Fuzzy Logic that a second horse is being bought and put into training with the David Nicholson stables … |
| 43 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 44 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 45 | The means test is now being set so low that only people who are unemployed or have incomes near benefit levels will be able to obtain free legal help . |
| 46 | Corbett loved the brilliant logic delivered so tongue-in-cheek that only those who wished to take offence would be affronted . |
| 47 | That burns so blue and still , |
| 48 | It was indecent , surely , to stand like this , in public , and feel so alive and so excited ? |
| 49 | This man who somehow made her feel so good and yet so bad , all at the same time . |
| 50 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 51 | Hypnosis is rather like the former situation ; you are aware of all that is happening but , because it feels so right and so pleasant , you allow it to happen . |
| 52 | Louise looked at Fleury and felt so vulnerable that presently she began to cry . |
| 53 | It felt so safe and so right , and at the same time so electric , stirring her in ways that were becoming increasingly familiar , and increasingly delightful . |
| 54 | Lo and behold , when I got to court , this old lady was there and I felt so ashamed and so sorry for her . |
| 55 | To see you go so pale and still ? |
| 56 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 57 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 58 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 59 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 60 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |