Example sentences of "[prep] so [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every , we go through so much milk now with erm , having breakfast cereals and |
| 2 | I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now . |
| 3 | Where the new Lady Grandison exclaims , with an effusiveness Sir Leicester would have approved-'What pleasure had I in hearing the history of this ancient family , from this unbroken series of the pictures of it , for so many generations past ! ’ — family portraits are rather put in their place by Jane Austen . |
| 4 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 5 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 6 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 7 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 8 | Where the people watched for so many days there |
| 9 | Walking means exercise , walking means effort , you and I have to do something to keep ourselves spiritually awake , going back to our illustration again about the car driver on the motorway , you find yourself after so many miles just dozing off because the road is so straight , not much traffic around , not much to think about apart from the countryside that goes by and you 're there foot on the accelerator , no braking , no gear changing , nothing at all and you get to the point where you 're driving one-handed by the thing , that 's the time when you get so relaxed is n't it ? |
| 10 | For me this generous use of natural reverberation acts as a tonic after so many recordings where the acoustics seem too dry or contrived . |
| 11 | I was shocked to hear of her death and of so many others all over the country . ’ |
| 12 | That could well be , but we now have this tremendous er cooperation of so many countries together , we have a very strong team of naval forces in the Gulf now , er I think it 's significant that both these occasions involved three countries working together , er share , without er any violence at any , er injury as far as I 'm aware , er have stopped er these two ships that sought to continue to proceed . |
| 13 | Why is the worship life of so many Christians so poverty stricken ? |
| 14 | He was n't sure who I was talking about and I had difficulty myself in recognising this creature of so many years before . |
| 15 | She liked the sensation of so much enjoyment around . |
| 16 | Women were brought aboard the ships , too — but the crews , despite so many months away from female company , did not find much sexually attractive about them . |
| 17 | They were lonely , poor lads , like so many servicemen far from home , but their brash attentions grated and could be embarrassing : ‘ Hiya , babe ! |
| 18 | Like so many times before , he had gone to the window where he stared out across the night sky , his thoughts a million miles away . |
| 19 | As a result , the vast extension of government administration into so many fields formerly subject to private determination has outgrown the capacity of traditional judicial machinery to subject it to control . |
| 20 | But with so many refugees here , there 's never enough to go round . |
| 21 | ln pages i and ii of the advertisement for this volume , Darwin explains Gould 's part in its production and the untimely departure which left Darwin with so many questions still unanswered : |
| 22 | With so many memories already jostling in his mind , it seemed that weeks had passed since the killing . |
| 23 | With so many colleges there simply were not enough funds to go round : a twelve year survey ( 1890–1901 ) of the Baptist colleges shows that of eighty-five annual budgets for which there is full evidence , fifty-five had over-spent . |
| 24 | With so many horses off to Cheltenham … the Nicholson challenge is more like a cavalry charge this year … |
| 25 | Worse still , on the day , how could I be sure , with so many actors around , that the bridesmaids would n't turn out to be actors in drag ? |
| 26 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 27 | Cars are expensive tools of our everyday lies , but at least , with so many manufacturers now providing so many different models , the buyer can tailor the choice of vehicle to the usage . |
| 28 | No , no , Dinda used it cos she 's got a camera with so many gadgets on . |
| 29 | ‘ There are 30 people on the road with the band and it is a very strange situation to be travelling with so many people constantly . |
| 30 | ‘ With so many reporters around , I thought she might be tempted to rake up old scores . |