Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 2 | His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve . |
| 3 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 4 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 5 | His ability to organise often went unseen — though never unappreciated — since everything was done so unobtrusively and apparently without effort . |
| 6 | So much done so quickly and then nothing . |
| 7 | Certainly his skill as an administrator was a vital factor in ensuring that so much was built so quickly and magnificently . |
| 8 | ‘ They were separated , but they were separated so fully and so completely , and so soon after their birth , that the threat withdrew . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Odd thing , ’ Flavia said , ‘ I should n't have thought so either and now I 'm convinced she does . |
| 10 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 11 | The judgement is ‘ performed so constantly and so quick , that we take that for the perception of our sensation which is an idea formed by our judgment ’ . |
| 12 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 13 | The show is advanced so sluggishly and episodically that , apart from first and last reels , there could be a mix-up in reels without much comment . ’ |
| 14 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 15 | Bathsheba 's young heart was full of pity for this sensitive man who had spoken so simply and honestly . |
| 16 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 17 | Do n't be impatient , assimilate the knowledge and learning you 've gained so far and then when the time is right you will coast forward even faster . |
| 18 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |
| 19 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 20 | Why had they been killed so barbarously and so mysteriously ? |
| 21 | That his bravery was ended so abruptly and unexpectedly seems very cruel . |
| 22 | Never again in Anselm 's lifetime was the papal position to be stated so clearly and uncompromisingly . |
| 23 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 24 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 25 | Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors . |
| 26 | It seemed impossible that in a few short days her life could have changed so dramatically and fundamentally , and she told Rohan so . |
| 27 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 28 | Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government . |
| 29 | Indeed the climate has changed so radically and rapidly that some teachers feel over-exposed to parental demand , exploitation and expectation . |