Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was shifting in her mind suddenly , stepping out of the shadows she had so forcibly pushed him into in self-defence , and she realised her attraction to him was more than just physical . |
| 2 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 3 | He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , not at all , ’ Robyn murmured through clenched teeth , ‘ because , you see , I do n't grub around as you so delicately put it — I design . ’ |
| 5 | Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death . |
| 6 | Keith Floyd , the housewife 's galloping choice and tippling gourmet extraordinaire , has said goodbye to the roues of Provence , the stews of West Cork and embarked upon , as he so professionally put it , ‘ the BBC maxi-break of a lifetime ’ . |
| 7 | Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity . |
| 8 | Asimov took the idea from the tales of the feuding Greeks ' victories over the united Persians who so vastly outnumbered them . |
| 9 | Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor . |
| 10 | But , as the French report so politely puts it : |
| 11 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
| 12 | Unaccustomed to such tenderness from this man who had so rarely shown her anything but contempt and passion , Maria found herself beginning to tremble , while a hot , smarting sensation afflicted her eyes and emotion tightened her throat . |
| 13 | But perhaps the most moving after all are Bernard Gotfryd 's own feelings , just because he so rarely mentions them . |
| 14 | They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself . |
| 15 | The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults . |
| 16 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 17 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 18 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 19 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
| 20 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 21 | The catering was so little used it was decided to suspend it and it was necessary to dig into the precious Henly legacy for repairs , wages , course upkeep and to off-set the catering losses . |
| 22 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 23 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 24 | All these systems dealt with the problem of how to dispose of stock when , as Day 's library so elegantly put it on the slip , ‘ the first demand for the book has abated ’ . |
| 25 | I doubt if I shall meet anyone else in 1982 who will so powerfully impress me as she did . " |
| 26 | He wass so badly hurt we could easily be dealing with a murder inquiry . |
| 27 | I had n't read pornography until I wrote the book and when I read it I found it was so badly written it meant nothing to me . |
| 28 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 29 | A significant number in the survey had been so badly penalised they had left to form their own practices . |
| 30 | If he had n't been so badly injured we would n't have even attempted a rescue until later , but he was in a bad way , so we had no choice . ’ |