Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 2 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 3 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ If the Scottish Secretary wishes to make a statement then he should do so openly and publicly and not allow his young office staff to brief members of the press off the record . |
| 5 | You will do so quietly and clearly , and you will tell me the truth . |
| 6 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 7 | John had never seen men work so willingly or cheerfully . |
| 8 | How strange , though , that the report running inside my own head can quote so freely and copiously from the report running inside Summerchild 's . |
| 9 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 10 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |
| 11 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 12 | A man will go so far and then he will snap . |
| 13 | Peter would go so far and then no further , till I was bright scarlet from Guthrie 's ministrations and nothing from Peter . |
| 14 | it 'll go so far and then it just switches off |
| 15 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 16 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 17 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 18 | ‘ No style of building , ’ wrote Mr Ould , Hill Bark 's architect , of half-timbering , ‘ will harmonize so quickly and completely with its surroundings … and none continues to live on such terms of good fellowship with other materials , whether rosy brickwork , grey lichen covered masonry , or pearly flag-slates . ’ |