Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this distinction is a relatively recent one : Isaac Newton , for example , would not have distinguished so clearly between physics and philosophy . |
| 2 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 3 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 4 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 5 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 6 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 7 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 8 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 9 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 10 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 11 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 12 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 13 | For she could not have risen so far on her own . |
| 14 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 15 | She should never have let go — should never have cried so desperately in his arms . |
| 16 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 17 | That Howe 's resignation should have occurred so opportunely for Heseltine — on the very eve of the one time of year that the party rules permit a leadership challenge — was extremely important . |
| 18 | Without him , I do n't think I would have got so far in my career . |
| 19 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 20 | She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs . |
| 21 | How could she have melted so completely under his kiss ? |
| 22 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 23 | If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend . |
| 24 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 25 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 26 | She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part . |
| 27 | On December 21 last year , my daughter turned to me and said : ‘ Thank you , Mum , I do n't think I 'd have managed so well without you . ’ |
| 28 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 29 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |