Example sentences of "so [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 2 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 3 | But with the really buttery taste that 's so obviously lacking in other low fat spreads . |
| 4 | There were a number of walkers now , all taking their time and drinking in the view , but the chap at our heels had now resorted to breaking away from his party to try and close the gap so obviously gnawing at his soul . |
| 5 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 6 | Rob was so obviously brimming with enthusiasm that Merrill had to say carefully , ‘ I think it sounds delightful . ’ |
| 7 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 8 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |
| 9 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 10 | We have spent so long fighting against a political tide which is pushing us ever backwards that it is a victory just to stand still . |
| 11 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
| 12 | Hick 's first innings 64 looked as if it could be the Test breakthrough England have been so patiently waiting for . |
| 13 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 14 | It 's so just enquiring on the catalogue interest , we 've only got that one |
| 15 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 16 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 17 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 18 | The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s . |
| 19 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 20 | Unlike Mengele , a freelance monster exploiting opportunities only the Nazis could give him , and unlike Teller , so openly fronting for the Pentagon , our anonymous scientist would acknowledge his dreadful error , his responsibility . |
| 21 | The air sign , Gemini , was depicted by twin cats , ethereal in clear bluish glass , yet with an extra dimension because they were so clearly communicating with each other . |
| 22 | It was the biggest exercise of its kind mounted by Courtaulds , with questionnaires so far going to 15,000 employees across the whole range of operations in the UK , continental Europe , United States , Latin America , the Far East and Australasia . |
| 23 | So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have . |
| 24 | So now turning to the point which er I think you asked us to address . |
| 25 | AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work . |
| 26 | AFTER THEIR recent eponymous chart success , northern bleep boys LFO have set their hands to a remix of the BOTANY 5 cut ‘ Lovebomb ’ , which they 've approached with an excitement and verve so often lacking from more established remixers ' work . |
| 27 | Situated on Brighton Seafront close to the famous West Pier , the Brighton Hotel offers elegance , luxury and comfort , coupled with the friendly service so often lacking in the larger establishment . |
| 28 | A fine guitarist in many styles , his band combines professionalism with wry humour and a straightforward honesty of purpose ( so often lacking in music of this kind ) . |
| 29 | Some of the reasons for the caring so often falling on the shoulders of a woman may be unavoidable . |
| 30 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |