Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 2 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 3 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |
| 4 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 5 | But then we have to move with Ulysses to a huge spinning-top of words which defies such judgements and leaves us clutching at apparently familiar images which so sooner appear than they are gone . |
| 6 | Not all lots sold however , the auctioneer 's buying-in an extensive collection of medals and badges awarded to Ben and Joe Adamowicz who flew the Atlantic in their Bellanca as well as the historic log books which so faithfully recorded this epic flight . |
| 7 | But more immediately on his doorstep is continuing unrest among backbenchers who so nearly brought about his downfall last Wednesday . |
| 8 | But gradually , over the years , they had defected , as weak as the teenagers they so relentlessly criticized : they 'd let the old ways lapse in order to slump like dummies in front of appalling chat shows and glimpses of the Sugar Plum Fairy and obsequious shots of the Royal Family and its corgis and babies , to goggle at old movies and new dance routines and to sit back sucking sweeties while sneering at pop stars and newscasters making fools of themselves at televised parties . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century , regrettably , Canada abandoned its distinctive combination of French and Scottish elements which so perfectly reflected its cultural heritage . |
| 10 | To do so it is necessary to examine the origins of our literary expectations which so frequently assume that the best literary experience deals with individuals capable of making moral distinctions and to question the pejorative critical formulations which tend to accompany assessments of characters as vehicles for ideas : caricature , static , incompletely realised , and so on . |
| 11 | His work in Peking has now been published in book form , and will hopefully be given the critical accolades it so undoubtedly deserves , but that will be small consolation for a man who may never seen his homeland again . |
| 12 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 13 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 14 | I am pleased that I will be working even more closely with Carmen , whose expertise and uncompromising literary tastes I so greatly admire . ’ |
| 15 | This , however , is commonly the experience of the monitoring teams who so often contain nationals from the countries from which news of war and disaster is coming . |
| 16 | I am sure that the House joins me , the hon. Member for Leyton and my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) in expressing deepest sympathy to the families of the officers who so tragically lost their lives in the course of duty . |
| 17 | His relations gave him up , deploring his French expedition and the revolutionary sympathies it so clearly implied , and despairing that he would ever take the opportunities available to him for making a career in the Church or the law . |
| 18 | Because certainly the thing that particularly struck me about these design and technology A levels which so often seem to be sort of er erm a contrived project , not not a real one . |
| 19 | Are these the gifts you so grandly claim to have bestowed on mankind ? |
| 20 | The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults . |
| 21 | Ben Jonson , a ‘ scholarship boy ’ whose ability with language allowed him to gain social advancement , is keen to distance himself from popular writing whose techniques he so skilfully employs . |
| 22 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 23 | Bruce had in fact been contemplating a withdrawal to the hills rather than risk a head-on clash with forces which so visibly outnumbered his own . |
| 24 | The wars which so frequently rage in the Middle East are almost invariably born of such allegiances and are frequently claimed to be necessary to protect one particular religion or version or derivative of it . |
| 25 | And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa . |
| 26 | This highlighted the real success of such operations — the netting of the big men behind the scenes who so often escape while the small-fry are caught red-handed . |
| 27 | Asimov took the idea from the tales of the feuding Greeks ' victories over the united Persians who so vastly outnumbered them . |
| 28 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 29 | Thanks and praise to the four staff members who so successfully ran the party . |
| 30 | He had neither the background nor the inclination for life in those institutions whose products he so roundly despised . |