Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken her months to get used to eating so late and so many times a day . |
| 2 | At Berlin and GHQ Charleville-Mézières , the Kaiser 's appearances were becoming so infrequent that even his senior counsellors were openly expressing disapproval at his aloofness from the war . |
| 3 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 4 | She said in a low , fierce voice , ‘ Why do n't you smile and look nice , ’ and he blinked with surprise , looking so small and so sweet that she softened . |
| 5 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 6 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 7 | THE cast list of the real-life royal soap opera is now getting so long and so complicated that all except its most avid followers can be forgiven for losing track . |
| 8 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 9 | There is also the fear that with unemployment increasing so fast and remorselessly , Britain could still collapse into slump . |
| 10 | Some of the holes even we could n't reach in two on the par-4s , they were playing so hard and long . |
| 11 | But , as she explained afterwards , with Seles hitting so hard and so deep , it was very difficult to play any other way against her . |
| 12 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 13 | Ben says I should n't feel guilty , that we 're doing nothing wrong , but lying is wrong and deceiving your mother is wrong , and feeling so happy and so loving with Ben is wrong . |