Example sentences of "she [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 2 | And she felt a twinge of panic that , already , she cared so much for his opinion . |
| 3 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 4 | Maybe , she reflected , storming round her room to throw some clothes into her suitcase , it was because she rose so satisfactorily to the bait ? |
| 5 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 6 | Poor Alice , thought Auguste , she tried so hard , but he feared his lordship did not notice her save as a friend , an attitude of which James Pegg would fully approve . |
| 7 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 8 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 9 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 10 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 11 | She turns me up , she looks so bleeding bored all day . " |
| 12 | Any more is a bonus because she looks so much better and I 'm really pleased . |
| 13 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 14 | But , as she demonstrated so memorably in last year 's auspicious Prom performance , it holds no terrors for the young soprano Galina Gorchakova , who gives a performance of thrilling virtuosity and commitment . |
| 15 | It was because she had known the contagion of the one that she entered so passionately into the incorruptibility of the other . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was because she compared so unfavourably with Corrie . |
| 17 | In July Virginia Woolf , with her husband Leonard , paid the long-awaited visit which she describes so vividly in her diary . |
| 18 | I think she honestly did not know how she played so well . |
| 19 | Those were words she 'd so desperately wanted to hear . |
| 20 | Surely he could n't remain unmoved in the atmosphere she 'd so skilfully created ? |
| 21 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 22 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 23 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 24 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 25 | So why did she feel so irresistibly drawn to him ? |
| 26 | Why did she feel so much more a person when she was not being virtuous ? |
| 27 | And she seemed so radiantly happy , with her husband Marc , a tall , humorous man with a high , intelligent forehead and thick horn-rimmed glasses , and her little baby son . |
| 28 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 29 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 30 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |