Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’
6 I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there
7 I did so well because I was hard . ’
8 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 .
9 I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went .
10 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 ’ .
11 You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable .
12 Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught .
13 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
14 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 .
15 She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it .
16 ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’
17 She moped so badly after your father died . ’
18 And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ?
19 She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change .
20 You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits .
21 If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them .
22 But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ?
23 We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation .
24 Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis .
25 We now give a variant of the method of 2.9.3 ; we do so partly because the variant can save computer time , especially if may iterations are required , but also because it enables us simply to bring out certain features of the method , which lead to possible modifications .
26 After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young .
27 ‘ Must we wrangle so soon after we meet again , Papa ?
28 They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes .
29 Let them hate so long as they fear .
30 They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night .
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