Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 2 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 3 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 4 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 5 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 6 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 7 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 9 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 10 | For a moment his attractiveness shone so powerfully that it almost sabotaged the warning bells sounding strident alarm inside Charity 's head . |
| 11 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 12 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 13 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 14 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 15 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 17 | The candle flickered again , so badly that it almost flickered out . |
| 18 | 16 ) of the evacuation of Attica that the Athenians took it so badly because it was like leaving one 's polis ; this is on the face of it a paradox because they were going from their country demes to the polis . |
| 19 | It said ‘ Danger ’ , but a big piece of the signboard had broken off , so perhaps when it wass whole it said ‘ Dangerfield ’ , not just ‘ Danger ’ . ’ |
| 20 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 21 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 22 | Then his good mood evaporated so entirely that it might never have been . |
| 23 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 24 | It 's not so long since it was in the United States and er I 'm quite shocked really , but I 'm er I mean Manchester did a terrific job really . |
| 25 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 26 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 27 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 28 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 29 | Chicken 's feet used to give the lie to my bravura claim to Eat Anything , so long as it was recently dead . |
| 30 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |