Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation .
2 But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens .
3 Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ?
4 Investment occurs in so wide a variety of assets and sectors that it must be disaggregated substantially if any close statistical fit is to be found .
5 However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence .
6 Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers .
7 Waiting in a traffic jam the engine turns over so silently Dominique has to rev to make sure the car has n't stalled .
8 Because our winter closes in so sharply , whatever we sow for overwintering must go in earlier , and that means August .
9 It 's not often that sponsorship pays off so handsomely , and Pick-popper Sanderson Electronics Plc must be feeling pretty pleased with itself , getting to both cup finals : its local team , Sheffield Wednesday , whose players bear the Sanderson name on their breasts , will be contesting the League Cup this weekend and the FA Cup in May — against Arsenal on both occasions .
10 Lucker sits down so heavily , the mattress buckles .
11 one 's hurting the other and the other hurts back so instead of maybe looking at one another , they just do n't work hard !
12 It is no coincidence that the Oddbins ' name comes up so often .
13 Perhaps that last phrase gives us a clue as to why fundamentalism holds on so tenaciously to life .
14 Or rather , just keep quiet , I mean your dad waffles on so much anything he says is n't confidential or anything is it ?
15 It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place .
16 When temperature shoots up so dramatically , bleeding can result in all the major organs such as the heart , lungs and liver .
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