Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I know so far . |
| 2 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 4 | Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything . |
| 5 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 6 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 7 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 8 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 9 | To give me what you 'd so often described to me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 11 | You 'll have a softer landing than you expect — indeed , you 'll find you do n't need what you wanted so desperately ! |
| 12 | ‘ For the ladies ’ benefit , Peter , perhaps you 'd like to run over what we 've so far established . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Based on what we know so far , I think it 's the husband . ’ |
| 14 | It is out duty to protect and support what we have so nearly destroyed . |
| 15 | What we have so strongly on this is that there are now over twenty eight thousand |
| 16 | Surely this is too early to embark on new ideas — obscuring what we have so painstakingly created . |
| 17 | Although one would dearly like more supportive evidence , what we have so far indicates that isolated experiences rarely if ever leave permanent traces — however traumatic and however early they may be . |
| 18 | To draw an explicit conclusion about what we have so far of causes and effects , if a particular event c caused some event e , then one of these two criteria was satisfied : ( I ) If c had not happened , then e would not have happened . |
| 19 | But Nozick argues that although this account may cope with the examples Gettier offers , there are other similar examples which would escape what we have so far . |
| 20 | ‘ I got no neat story for you , Rufus , but this is what we have so far . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 24 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 25 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 26 | His response , echoing what he had so often done on the battlefield , was first to sit tight and then to try to turn an apparently negative situation to his advantage . |
| 27 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 28 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |