Example sentences of "as [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vacillating vamp , as I so aptly said : do I phone her ? |
| 2 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 3 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
| 4 | ‘ But as you so clearly realize , scientists have many times created tools that can be used for good , but which have then been perverted to evil use . |
| 5 | Though some of them were charming young ladies , I always managed to avoid breeding with them ( as you so courteously put it ) and I advise you do the same . |
| 6 | He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , not at all , ’ Robyn murmured through clenched teeth , ‘ because , you see , I do n't grub around as you so delicately put it — I design . ’ |
| 8 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 9 | It was good of you to come at such short notice and lucky for me that you had no date for this evening , as you so easily might have done . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When you 've looked at me coldly — as you so often have — I 've wanted to warm you , melt you . |
| 11 | ‘ You are a part of it , ’ he interrupted caustically , ‘ whether you like it or not , and at the moment you are the only friend Steve Cannock has and if you feel for him as you so often have claimed to you 'll be at his side when he needs you . ’ |
| 12 | And , as you so responsibly pointed out just a moment ago , that is also where her school is . |
| 13 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 14 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |
| 15 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
| 16 | What you said of Alexander Selkirk 's monologue , the good sense you made of the ramblings of my John Bunyan , your understanding of the passion of Iñez de Castro … gruesomely resurrecta … but that is enough of my egoistical mutter , and of those of my personae , who are not , as you so rightly remarked , my masks . |
| 17 | ‘ As you so rightly pointed out , I really should come back here in the spring . |
| 18 | As you so rightly say , the printer is n't issuing a line feed at the end of each line , causing the paper to stay still . |
| 19 | ‘ Yesterday was yesterday , and , as you so rightly pointed out , any reasonably proficient man can make a woman feel special . |
| 20 | ‘ As you so rightly pointed out , I found one . |
| 21 | Besides , as you so rightly pointed out , I 'm not getting any younger , and if I want to have your children … ’ |
| 22 | Then , of course , as you so rightly mentioned , there 's the matter of my air-conditioning unit , ’ he continued smoothly , taking a few steps away from her to slide open the door of the large built-in wardrobe to produce a maroon silk dressing-gown , which he gravely handed over to her , before finding a similar garment , this time in striped towelling , for himself . |
| 23 | Mere mortals , dear Rainbow , as you so rightly say , would present no threat . |
| 24 | Because as you so rightly say , we are part of that partnership of that er , movement forward , but there are other partners too , and we want to take them forward with us . |
| 25 | If you want to ruin yourself , then , as you so rightly say , you 're old enough to know what you 're doing . ’ |
| 26 | You were , as you so frankly admitted , hardly dressed for entertaining ! ’ |
| 27 | Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death . |
| 28 | In the meantime , as she so sweetly says , through her tears , to those who have over many years tried to gently persuade her to go straight away and live the rest of her life in comfort . |
| 29 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 30 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |