Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , asked whether it was not damaging to devote so much space to the attack , said : ‘ This conference should be discussing why this bankrupt policy is n't working . |
| 2 | It 's going to cost so much money to get all this right in the end is n't it ? |
| 3 | We 're going to make so much money out of oysters that the 5 million or so you 've got against me will look like chicken feed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 5 | Not only does the trusting Christian need to worry about the placebo effect , he also needs to be aware that he will want to please his therapist , having placed so much faith in him . |
| 6 | It is a remarkable turnaround for the ex-Blues ' star , who never dreamed he would be offered such a lucrative post , having suffered so much frustration in the domestic game . |
| 7 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 8 | She felt sleepy rather than tired , as a result , she told herself , of having had so little sleep of late . |
| 9 | Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’ |
| 10 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 11 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 12 | It would have been irresponsible to go on with them having lost so much weight . ’ |
| 13 | Having dedicated so much energy to his love of Shakespeare , Berlioz wrote his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing with a careful sense of how much speech should surround the musical numbers . |