Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 2 | It had n't occurred to him that all those years Alice , who had looked after him so persistently and unobtrusively , should have had no one to look after her . |
| 3 | He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground . |
| 4 | I think the thing you have to say that as far as I 'm concerned , from what I 've see of her so far and I have n't worked with her in the field yet but far brighter spark in your department than that one we interviewed the other day |
| 5 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 6 | He drew her against him so completely that shafts of sexual awareness pierced her and a blind hungry need made her cling to him . |
| 7 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 8 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 9 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 10 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 11 | She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened . |
| 12 | The NUWM , however , was under Communist control , and it was difficult to cooperate with it so long as the ILP was regarded as " Social Fascist " . |
| 13 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 14 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 15 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 16 | She clutched the sheet round her so tightly that her knuckles turned white . |
| 17 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 18 | The leading actor had believed in it so heartily that he had kicked it in mid-speech and got his foot embedded in it . |
| 19 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 20 | Anger was rippling through him so fiercely that his whole body seemed to be shivering uncontrollably . |
| 21 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |
| 22 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 23 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 24 | I 'm not very good at listening to God , but between one and three am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do ) . |
| 25 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 26 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 27 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 28 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 29 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 30 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |