Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 2 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 3 | Frankie felt himself gripped more tightly , then shaken so violently that his teeth rattled . |
| 4 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 5 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 6 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 7 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 8 | For we , like all animal species , have an optimum group size and it is one that we have exceeded so dramatically that our species is already well on its way to massive self-destruction . |
| 9 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 10 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
| 11 | A quiet , unassuming man , Geoffrey Thomas indulged a great fondness for nature and wildlife in the countryside around his house in Kent , and read so voraciously that his wife feared they might have to move house to gain access to a new public library . |
| 12 | And why does the dominant class submit to leaving some of its economic interests thwarted so long as its political interests are satisfied ? |
| 13 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 14 | She sighed so heavily that her whole ribcage moved . |
| 15 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 16 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 17 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 18 | Four intensive treatments from the Poly Kur Intensive Hair-Repair Treatment range — our tester said the one for dry hair worked so well that her hair went from sow 's ear to silk purse , and felt in much better condition immediately ( £3.45 each , from major Boots ' branches ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Since you left the restaurant that night asking so pointedly when his war was going to begin . ’ |
| 20 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 21 | Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 22 | Secondly , why did Sir Ralph just lie there and allow his throat to be cut so savagely that his head was almost hacked from his body ? |
| 23 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 25 | THE SOPHISTICATED Miss Gertrude Jekyll , gardening heroine of the Edwardians , commissioned Edwin Lutyens to design her Surrey homestead , and this he did so beautifully that their relationship was cemented and many future joint commissions ensued . |
| 26 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 27 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 28 | Those which say all or part of it , with perhaps the addition of a hymn , do so either because their numbers are small and their voices ageing , or as a result of a deliberate choice . |
| 29 | Dorothea 's hips must be all of forty-four inches and Isabel , with that straight figure , Isabel dressed so dully and her face was colourless . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't seem so long since his birthdee , do it ? ’ |