Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 2 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 3 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 4 | Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . |
| 5 | Well I hope so too and er Sharon from Grantham taking you on hello Sharon . |
| 6 | But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much . |
| 7 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 8 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 9 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 10 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 11 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 12 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 14 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 15 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 16 | I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him . |
| 17 | ‘ I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went . |
| 18 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 19 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 20 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |
| 21 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 22 | Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her . |
| 23 | She sighed so heavily that her whole ribcage moved . |
| 24 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 25 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 26 | And I think I 'm I speak for er you know so so if that 's success then yes you know then then it 's it 's got to you know I du n no ho |
| 27 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 28 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 29 | They begged Franca to come too , and she declined so tactfully that they could all , without awkwardness , smile over the plan and even discuss it . |
| 30 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she breathed so softly that she wondered if he had heard . |