Example sentences of "from [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’
2 Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily .
3 Then again from nowhere came a punch , like iron , straight into Mike 's solar plexus , knocking the breath from him so completely Mike thought he was going to die .
4 Banyon pushed his glass away from him so sharply , it fell over and spilt a small pool of brandy on the table .
5 She closed her eyes , desperately trying to find the anger which had protected her from him so far , but found only an overwhelming longing to simply lose herself in his arms .
6 Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale .
7 But a woman teacher can know you from the inside ; you can not hide from her so easily , or divert her attention .
8 ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town .
9 Indeed , he thought De Cive contained things of a rather different nature from anything so far in political philosophy : it contained demonstrations of its conclusions .
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