Example sentences of "i [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 2 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 3 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 4 | Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . |
| 5 | Well I hope so too and er Sharon from Grantham taking you on hello Sharon . |
| 6 | But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much . |
| 7 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 8 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 9 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 10 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 11 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 12 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 14 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 15 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 16 | I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him . |
| 17 | ‘ I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went . |