Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] so [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you could meet her half-way and not rattle them so much during Mass " |
| 2 | I always have a pile of small , brightly coloured bricks on my desk , because they teach me so much about the children who sit in front of them . |
| 3 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 4 | " Perhaps it is our fault that we keep them so much in idleness ? |
| 5 | Neither needed the masculine camaraderie of club or golf course , pub or grouse moor which so many of their colleagues found necessary to solace or sustain their over-busy lives . |
| 6 | For I deem naught so precious to you , both for body and soul , as time , and methinks you value it too little . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Make it so hot for them here they 'll have to leave ! ’ |
| 8 | So often , people make it so easy for the criminal — it 's a gift ! |
| 9 | I said yes , she said it 's lovely , she said make it so easy for ironing , see |
| 10 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ You remind me so much of Gerda , you know that ? |
| 12 | I am so angry with you , Lucy , and I love you so much for doing it . ’ |
| 13 | What was the hold he exerted over her , that could steal beneath her guard and leave her so vulnerable to his own undeniable brand of charm ? |
| 14 | Because we think it so characteristic of human activity , we tend to assume that tool-using behaviour must demand special , exceptional intellectual skills . |
| 15 | And I do n't think we do it so much with the erm careers service training , but with the careers teachers often we 've got them doing action plans and things |
| 16 | It is a measure of his success in launching this new functional approach that we now take it so much for granted that we forget , and even find difficulty in appreciating , the novelty which it represented at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ I take it so much to heart , ’ he mourned , ‘ that I do not get on better . ’ |
| 18 | I do wonder if some of these are in fact the wild plum rather than Myrobalan , and I marvel that in summer we hardly notice any plum-like shrubs where we now see them so dominant over long stretches of banks . |
| 19 | They feed their babies only once every 48 hours but cram them so full of milk that , after feeding , it accounts for three-fifths of the infant 's body weight . |
| 20 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 21 | Few women have anything so remarkable in their armoury . |