Example sentences of "they [verb] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 2 | They got so much satisfaction from helping the Association , in fact , that as this photo shows , they signed application forms for Life Membership ! |
| 3 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 4 | No wonder they make so much profit . |
| 5 | ‘ With Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire being such an important base it 's hardly surprising they want so much land , but I really wonder at times whether they need so much ? ’ |
| 6 | Why have they attracted so much research ? |
| 7 | Never had they seen so much enquiry , so much question and answer , so much deployment of grey cells at one extreme and of gut intuition at the other . |
| 8 | She was already turning against the frills of earlier years , partly because they consumed so much factory time . |
| 9 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 10 | How did they think he could get more production from his work force if they allowed so little cash for its upkeep ? |
| 11 | They give so much joy and then you can always hand them back when you 've had enough . ’ |
| 12 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 13 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 14 | Alternatively , they lost so much money so frequently on them that they became disillusioned with all options and by proxy any other financial instruments . |
| 15 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 16 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 17 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 18 | ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along . |
| 19 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 20 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 21 | ‘ They carry so much power , it 's frightening , ’ he says . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll miss Andrew Ettingshausen and Laurie Daley , but it 's still a very strong squad and they 've so much talent to choose from , ’ he said . |
| 23 | She did n't want to quarrel with Maria , today of all days , when they had so little time left together . |
| 24 | In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They had so much possession and we just could n't get the ball off them . ’ |
| 26 | Strachan , Macallister , and Speed were in midfield , and by the end of the game were running round it seemingly at will — they had so much space to play in . |
| 27 | That 's how they had so much money , all these landlords in those days . |
| 28 | I did n't know they had so much money |
| 29 | The boys did n't pick it up — they had so much anger in them too . |
| 30 | Hate those questions because they take so much time . |