Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’
2 There is no evidence , however , to show that it was not until 844 that Molla Yegan gave up his offices , that he did not , for example , do so some years earlier and either live in retirement in Bursa or go on an extended visit to the Hijaz lasting some years .
3 The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency .
4 There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere .
5 Unless you 'd er think of America , but they 've got so much problems there that they 've got to look within themselves now have n't they ?
6 For blankets they would send so much wool away and you got blankets .
7 In fact , they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward , and sometimes , in flight down a steep place , they may actually go head over heels .
8 The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests .
9 He had so much energy even when he got old , he had so much energy .
10 They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it .
11 There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings .
12 In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine .
13 Anyway , Broom'ead caused so many problems there that 'is daughter 's ‘ usband told 'er that eivver 'er farvver went or 'e would .
14 Similarly , we should evaluate pains as so many times worse than a minimal pain .
15 Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy .
16 Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ?
17 As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’
18 That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind .
19 This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future .
20 There are so many bacteria everywhere that picking out a GEM is a bit like looking for a candle amongst Blackpool 's illumination .
21 er right , okay okay so better preparation so that when you make the presentation it 's more effective , yeah ?
22 So ten years later and the man comes back , the ma they cos they 've never come and checked on them they just sling the food through a but open up the cell where the man had Samantha Fox and millions of little kids come running out , all different ages and sizes , millions of them .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 So educational achievement rather than nepotism offers a background to the respect , status and deference accorded to elites .
25 Yes , so any words here that that look unpronounceable , turn out when you say them , to be modern , to be exactly the same as modern words , except that of course , you do n't have an f ending , as you know .
26 They picked a proper team , not having done so two years previously when they incomprehensibly left out their two best players , Peter McEvoy and Garth McGimpsey .
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