Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 2 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 3 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 4 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 5 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 6 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 7 | His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve . |
| 8 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 9 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 10 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 11 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 12 | ‘ How very Evelyn , ’ said my father years later , ‘ to write so readably and inaccurately . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 14 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 15 | She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about . |
| 16 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 17 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 18 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 19 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 20 | His ability to organise often went unseen — though never unappreciated — since everything was done so unobtrusively and apparently without effort . |
| 21 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 22 | ‘ … swearing so loudly and disgustingly ? |
| 23 | Certainly his skill as an administrator was a vital factor in ensuring that so much was built so quickly and magnificently . |
| 24 | ‘ They were separated , but they were separated so fully and so completely , and so soon after their birth , that the threat withdrew . ’ |
| 25 | Laughter came so easily and loud that passing tourists looked at us strangely . |
| 26 | They came so far and then they stopped , looking confused and wary . |
| 27 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 28 | And even if you did , then who really wants to see tries scored so easily and so readily ? |
| 29 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 30 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to tax people more rigorously , he should do so openly and not in the disguised form in which that is proposed . |