Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 2 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 3 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 4 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 5 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 6 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 7 | When it was running , the geyser roared so loudly that the place felt like a rocket in the middle of a take off . |
| 8 | There was no brand name on the yarn and the work twisted so badly that she could not wear it . |
| 9 | Laughter came so easily and loud that passing tourists looked at us strangely . |
| 10 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 11 | The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim . |
| 12 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 13 | Then his good mood evaporated so entirely that it might never have been . |
| 14 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 15 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 16 | Unfortunately confidence in this practice was somewhat sapped when the House of Lords decided that , if the officer of the company who certified the transfer did so fraudulently and for his own purposes when sufficient share certificates had not in fact been lodged , the company was not liable . |
| 17 | However , Bonanza Boy won so easily that there really was no second . |
| 18 | I asked Dick if there were any surprises for him about the aircraft and he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised that this Allison machine ran so smoothly and that the power band was as wide and it was . |
| 19 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 20 | Again perceptions of the value of these interviews differed , but one teacher went so far as to say that if it needed an appraisal to bring these advisers into the school then it was worth it . |
| 21 | From about 1780 onwards , the population grew so steadily and so rapidly that by 1950 the number of inhabitants had again increased by seven times . |
| 22 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 23 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 24 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 25 | Perceived as ‘ weak ’ and ‘ lonely ’ , one respondent went so far as to condemn raisins as ‘ embarrassing to be seen with in public ’ ! |
| 26 | A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook . |
| 27 | Four intensive treatments from the Poly Kur Intensive Hair-Repair Treatment range — our tester said the one for dry hair worked so well that her hair went from sow 's ear to silk purse , and felt in much better condition immediately ( £3.45 each , from major Boots ' branches ) . |
| 28 | A word or phrase used so often that it becomes a slogan . |
| 29 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 30 | One writer went so far as to say that this construction ‘ flies in the face of the settled interpretation of this provision . ’ |