Example sentences of "and [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , he got up , sat in the sun , stood up , and fainted so completely I thought he was dead . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 3 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 4 | ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘ |
| 5 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 6 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 7 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 8 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 9 | AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work . |
| 10 | AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work . |
| 11 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 12 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 13 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 14 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 15 | We are delighted our own staff and the residents have given their effort , time and cash so generously . ’ |
| 16 | Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them . |
| 17 | Editor , — John Wright and Helen Ford describe the anguish and despair affecting many sub-Saharan African countries and made so much worse recently by drought . |
| 18 | Horrified … and yet strangely relieved and satisfied , and tingling with primitive energy and release , she turned on her heel and threaded so nimbly through the crowded guests that she reached the French doors that opened on to the side veranda before Greg had recovered enough to take a single step . |
| 19 | This is caused by the slow leaching of elements from the unstable early soda glasses , and has so far proved impossible to replicate . |
| 20 | This year 's best seller was Save The Earth by Jonathan Porritt which was published simultaneously in 17 countries in local languages and has so far sold more than 500,000 copies . |
| 21 | His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years . |
| 22 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 23 | The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation . |
| 24 | The ratio between the number of contracts in the two legs of a spread can be termed ‘ the spread ratio ’ ( denoted p ) , and has so far been unity . |
| 25 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 26 | It was flown by Benjamin , two days before Christmas 1991 , and has so far not shown signs of problems associated with the originals . |
| 27 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 28 | This chain soon took the skin off and entered so deeply into her flesh that it was no longer visible … |
| 29 | ‘ We work and socialise so well together . |
| 30 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |