Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’ |
| 2 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 3 | It 's like listening to a band suffering from perpetual memory loss , they live so relentlessly in the present . |
| 4 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 5 | We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible . |
| 6 | She began then to feel an odd sympathy and affinity with Marcus , who entered the house so quietly ( for now they left the door open for Pat 's visitors ) and stepped so noiselessly up the stairs . |
| 7 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 8 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 9 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 10 | ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology . |
| 11 | So right from the beginning you need to give out positive feelings and positive feedback towards them . |
| 12 | So right from the beginning of the poem a sombre mood is present in the poem . |
| 13 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 14 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 15 | Characters have to be created pictorially because there is no space to do so verbally in the text . |
| 16 | ‘ I always felt close to Freddie in the studio , whether he was there or not , because we worked together so intensively over the years . |
| 17 | I always felt close to Freddie in the studio , whether he was there or not , because we worked together so intensively over the years |
| 18 | One option that he did not possess was the mass medium of radio which he had used so effectively during the war : in April 1947 the prime minister Paul Ramadier prohibited retransmission of de Gaulle 's speeches . |
| 19 | This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 . |
| 20 | ‘ Into Western , ’ I said so thankfully to the men when they came . |
| 21 | It would not have been possible to tackle so many issues so successfully without the dedication of hundreds of volunteers working at both a local and national level . |
| 22 | Now , having strutted their stuff so successfully in the business arena , the Taiwanese want to show their arch-rivals — Japan and South Korea — that they had also better watch out when it comes to rugby and September 's Asian Rugby Football Tournament in Seoul . |
| 23 | Miss D'Arcy smiled again : she stood above him on the rise of Latrigg Fell and was impressed more than she had anticipated by the gallant and handsome figure he struck , posed so elegantly against the mountains . |
| 24 | There was n't much of an atmosphere , well what could I expect with the home team doing so badly at the moment . |
| 25 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 26 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 27 | That was why she was reacting so badly to the news that he had left Taipei . |
| 28 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 29 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 30 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |