Example sentences of "she [vb -s] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 4 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She turns me up , she looks so bleeding bored all day . " |
| 7 | Any more is a bonus because she looks so much better and I 'm really pleased . |
| 8 | In July Virginia Woolf , with her husband Leonard , paid the long-awaited visit which she describes so vividly in her diary . |
| 9 | She hopes so too , or she 'd not have written that note though she may not realize it yet . |
| 10 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 11 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |
| 12 | ( i ) " If she feels so strongly , she 'll decide against it . " |
| 13 | He smiled wickedly , ‘ And she moves so gracefully , too . ’ |
| 14 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 15 | Men have always been respectful of Hestia , the goddess of the hearth , easily intimidated by the mysteries she manipulates so easily . |
| 16 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 17 | The children ate hungrily , relaxing over the meal ; she must , thought Melanie , be nice if she cooks so well . |
| 18 | But Cara is so clever and she works so hard . |