Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 2 | but you see that only lasts so long they , they perish |
| 3 | He was a linebacker at Williams College yet another member of the so-called ‘ Williams Mafia ’ that now occupies so conspicuously large a percentage of the country 's key museum posts and served on a Navy ammunition boat in Vietnam before pursuing graduate studies in nineteenth-century American and European art at Harvard . |
| 4 | Inside and outside seemed so absolutely separate that once again Zen , drifting off into pleasantly dopey inattention , had the sensation of being a mere spectator of screen images , some television documentary about hardy men who did dangerous work for big money . |
| 5 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
| 6 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 7 | She reveals that she has always carried a photograph of Levy in her handbag and still does so today . |
| 8 | He had put away his notes and now talked so entertainingly about earlier visits to the city and about its importance during the Middle Ages that Merrill found herself disarmed and interested . |
| 9 | The wind shifts mentioned so far are small and fairly frequent so hopefully you can tack on the headers all the time . |
| 10 | Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness . |
| 11 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 12 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 13 | ‘ You could wear this Indian bedspread as a shawl , ’ suggested Robina , and even went so far as pull it off the bed and advance towards Penelope with it . |
| 14 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 15 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 16 | A large number of people sample windsurfing whilst on holiday and unfortunately do so under difficult conditions : crowded swimming beaches , choppy conditions , poor equipment and indifferent instruction . |
| 17 | How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane . |
| 18 | Why is it that presidents come and go and yet accomplish so relatively little ? |
| 19 | It is amazing that you can look so undignified and yet sound so much more authoritative ! ’ |
| 20 | I used to use a similar item — called a Plonker Box at the time — years ago , on the sides of two or three of my computers , and never lost so much a byte of information . |
| 21 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 22 | Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs . |