Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come so close to death . |
| 2 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 3 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 4 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 5 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 6 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 7 | ‘ If we were in funds , I 'd never leave so soon to Christmas unless there was a disaster somewhere . |
| 8 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 9 | Edouard de Chavigny did : he was a fine athlete , with a blue for cricket , and had taken so well to rowing that , even though a late starter , he had narrowly missed selection for the Oxford eight . |
| 10 | There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a terrible thing to happen so close to Christmas . ’ |