Example sentences of "they [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 2 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 3 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 4 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 5 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 6 | They came so far and then they stopped , looking confused and wary . |
| 7 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 8 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 9 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 10 | They quite fail to conceal the troubled human shallowness of all the raunch they profess so coolly and brightly to place and displace with a laugh . ’ |
| 11 | When a parent is very resistant to changing their reactions to their children it is helpful to unearth why they feel so strongly and often this is because of childhood experience . |
| 12 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 13 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 14 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 15 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 16 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , they did so well that from then on Emma was asked to contribute on a regular basis . |
| 18 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 19 | They did so impeccably and I believe their judgement was a judgement reached in accordance with the rules laid down by Parliament ’ Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on the handling of the port sale to Teesside Holdings . |
| 20 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |
| 21 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 22 | Play the harlot ( 1 ) : they did so literally and also as far as religion was concerned . |
| 23 | If they hand in an idea , by mail or in the suggestion box , they do so anonymously and the idea is a joke or an impertinence . |
| 24 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 25 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 26 | The reason behind this concentrated specialist activity is that Hardenberger , Howarth , and the BBC PO are making a record of the Maxwell Davies and Blake Watkins concertos together with Harrison Birtwistle 's Endless Parade , which last they performed so well and so memorably at York University last season . |
| 27 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 28 | It was delightful — not only to hear two of them boast so loudly about the lotus-eating weekend but to see what they said so effectively and hilariously challenged by a person from a different social group . |
| 29 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 30 | ‘ Filmophone ’ records were made of various colours of plastic , and had low surface-noise combined with great ruggedness ; but within a short time they warped so badly that they were unplayable . |