Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 3 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 4 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 5 | They came in illegally low after bombing practice on the range just down the firth , blasting over the island so suddenly that I jumped while in the delicate manoeuvre of teasing a wasp into a jar from the old tree stump near the ruined sheep-pen at the north end of the island . |
| 6 | It 's so long since I had people to dinner . |
| 7 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 8 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 9 | It 's been so long since I spent oh at least three quarters of a lunch break . |
| 10 | Oh , there are all manner of things I need , it is so long since I went shopping . |
| 11 | But it is so long since I went to a party , ’ she whispered . |
| 12 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 15 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 16 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 17 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 18 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 19 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 20 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 21 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 22 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 23 | So like when I said that she knew that I was teasing her when I said in , in that tone of voice . |
| 24 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 25 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 26 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 27 | thought to myself , yes in a sense I could of done with that so far but I thought , no , I 'll stick up and |
| 28 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 29 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 30 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |