Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 2 | As Edward Sagarin noted so eloquently in The Anatomy of Dirty Words : |
| 3 | With Gerbrand Grobler playing so well at fullback and backing up Naas as a place kicker , it seems the fifteen spot is tied up . |
| 4 | One reason , for example , why the Falklands issue figured so infrequently on the agenda of the Cabinet 's Oversea and Defence Committee before the Argentine invasion of April 1982 is that Lord Carrington , then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , disliked bringing Foreign Office business before committee meetings of his colleagues . |
| 5 | These tears were manufactured , as Miss Marsden has so brilliantly demonstrated , to help to conceal the circumstances of her death . |
| 6 | From top to bottom this was a society , which as David Ganz has so well observed in connection with the predestination controversy , ‘ was all too aware of its sins , all too uncertain of their forgiveness ’ . |
| 7 | As C. S. Lewis wrote so memorably , ‘ this transference of the whole self into another self without the demand for a return [ has ] hardly a precedent in profane literature ’ . |
| 8 | During one of these services , Richard Baxter preached so powerfully on ‘ Making light of Christ and His salvation ’ , that the two spies in the congregation fled in terror from the church . |
| 9 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 10 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |
| 11 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old . |
| 13 | Cos South Yorkshire comes so far do down Doncaster Road , do n't it ? |
| 14 | Suddenly he realized the flaw in the will Marius Steen had so hastily improvised in the South of France . |
| 15 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 16 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 17 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 18 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 19 | The punchline actually brought tears to her eyes and caused Isa Peebles to laugh so hard she almost fell off her stool . |
| 20 | Of course , the Broadway that Clifford Odets and Alexander Mackendrick captured so brilliantly in that classic film has now vanished . |
| 21 | Tea was then brought in , and during the meal Mr Grimwig stared so hard at Oliver that the boy felt rather confused . |
| 22 | But most of the 49 designated assembly points exist only on maps ; UN officials have so far surveyed only 20 of them and have not yet set up camps suitable for an organised demobilisation . |
| 23 | The pictures Sir Oliver has so meticulously measured and recorded may not be the most distinguished in the Royal Collection , but this volume is every bit as informative as the others in the series . |
| 24 | ’ I 'm sure Phil Collins works so hard for The Princes Trust because he 's working hard for his CBE . |
| 25 | He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi . |
| 26 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 27 | Erm the Castle and Aldi Supermarket guess so far Cecil 's on from Plumtree hello . |
| 28 | The basic issue , which Mr Fallon has so far managed to avoid totally in discussing this matter , yet which has made the Catholic community and the county council so anxious and so frustrated , is whether this Government accepts that places in Catholic schools should be provided for Catholic pupils . |
| 29 | The X-ray structure of S. faecalis HPr is in general agreement with all HPr structures published so far , except for the E. coli HPr X-ray structure . |
| 30 | Mrs Lamport has so far had 26 rejection slips for her book . |