Example sentences of "[adv] so [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We learn such skills from our mothers , midwives , books and from our own inner promptings , and as we use them they become absorbed into everyday life , often so much so that we no longer realize just how much we have learnt and are capable of ; in fact , we only take notice of the areas in which we feel that we fail . |
| 2 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 3 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 4 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 5 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 6 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 7 | Even by April 1973 , when the final decision had been taken , it still weighed heavily on Jackie : so much so that he finally sought advice from an Anglican priest and prayed God to give him enlightenment . |
| 8 | All the happenings of the night had mixed together so that he no longer knew whether he had really been woken and heard the Woman 's hushed , hissing voice and the faint News from the radio . |
| 9 | So So if you just call your mum . |
| 10 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 11 | The 38-year-old now enjoys hero status as a manager among Hillsborough fans — more so than he ever did as a player elsewhere . |
| 12 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |
| 13 | Loathsome as he now is , he becomes still more so as he hypocritically professes to Cornwall his filial embarrassment : ‘ How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of … . |
| 14 | Her eyebrows , which she darkened artificially so that they no longer merged into her skin , lifted slightly . |
| 15 | I feel this often leaves the clubhead behind so that it never catches up . |
| 16 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 17 | Okay so if we just summoned this area right , that area there represents the present value of the discounted stream of income . |
| 18 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 19 | She displays how to build living structures of pictorial importance by weaving individual dancers or groups deliberately and solemnly so that they frequently pause in a meaningful picture of distinctive shape . |