Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 2 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 3 | Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . |
| 4 | And with unnerving certainty she knew that something was in the corridor with her — something that blended its colour and shape so perfectly that it was invisible . |
| 5 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 6 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 7 | There are more than 600 varieties of mint which interbreed so readily that it can be hard to tell them apart . |
| 8 | In some rocks their shells lie so thickly that they form solid bands . |
| 9 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 10 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 11 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 12 | Why carry stock when trains run so often and it has been made so easy to get goods ? |
| 13 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 14 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 15 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 16 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 17 | In fact , it was n't until after we were married I knew he wanted to go out with me ’ ) , as she is the Yanks ( ‘ American tourists talk so loudly so they can be heard above their clothes ’ ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 19 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 20 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 21 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 23 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 24 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 25 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 26 | Modern technology comes to the rescue here , however : solid-fuel handling systems , developed by British Coal , allow automatic fuelling from an outside coal store ; de-ashing systems have improved , making the job quicker and easier ; smokeless fuels have made the burning of fires possible even in cities ; and some modern solid fuel stoves , which can be installed in front of a fireplace , burn so efficiently that they can be used in smokeless zones . |
| 27 | Basil was the exact opposite of those to whom words come so easily that they do a minimum of preparation , and afterwards the listener has difficulty in remembering what has been said . |
| 28 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |
| 29 | we 'd , we 'd tie , we 'd tie a wire round the pole and heave that up you see so far but you could n't pull the chain up . |
| 30 | The 500 stars brake so violently because they are brave , strong and skilful enough to take advantage of the extraordinary power of modern brakes and the grip of the latest slicks . |