Example sentences of "go [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 2 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 3 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 4 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 5 | I wanted to go home so eventually I ran away . |
| 6 | ‘ Angel , why are you going away so soon ? |
| 7 | Fletcher said : ‘ It 's bad that they are going away so soon after what has been a very hard and difficult tour . |
| 8 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 9 | Surprising to see children , they 're going back so soon . |
| 10 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 11 | He says it 's going well so far , although we have had some problems with ticket touts . |
| 12 | Without going quite so far , historians have indeed been critical . |
| 13 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 14 | The clock was going round so slowly . |
| 15 | But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens . |
| 16 | in the eastern parts of this county Your Majesty 's forests of Windsor are particularly burdened with the innumerable increase of deer , which if they shall go on so fast , in ten years more will neither leave food nor room for any other creature in the forests . |
| 17 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 18 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 19 | Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long . |
| 20 | If this is the case , how come they go on so blooming long ! |
| 21 | But men … they go downhill so quickly . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never seen anyone go downhill so quickly , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
| 24 | We have erm there have been certain decisions made over time which has got us to this position and whether erm you agree or anyone agrees or not the the the right next step is to specify a location , nevertheless it 's embodied in what 's gone on so far , a series of steps towards making the decision . |
| 25 | But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . |
| 26 | I remember we did a live version of ‘ Space Oddity ’ with acoustic guitar , bass and congas and it did n't go down so well . ’ |
| 27 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 28 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |
| 29 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 30 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |