Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 2 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 3 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Since you left the restaurant that night asking so pointedly when his war was going to begin . ’ |
| 5 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 6 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 7 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 8 | She was working so well that her coffee was always cold before she remembered to drink it . |