Example sentences of "who [vb mod] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
2 | ‘ I 'd go first , ’ said Fenella , who would do so unhesitatingly . |
3 | ‘ All in all , we now believe that the corner has indeed been turned , although it would be a brave man who would say so categorically with the UK economy still in such an uncertain state . ’ |
4 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
5 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
6 | Anyone who can say so clearly just what Derrida is saying , or doing , immediately puts the reader in his debt . |
7 | Anyone who can sound so apparently unconcerned , with his spacecraft exploding around him , and Houston asking him to repeat what he just said , deserves to be called in the words of a fellow astronaut , ‘ a real pro ’ . |