Example sentences of "could [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panic-stricken , she had made her way back to Bruton Street , her feet rubbed into blisters in flimsy evening slippers , wondering how taxis could disappear so completely whenever she needed one . |
| 2 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 3 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 4 | He said at a reception at the circuit that it was amazing that modern grand prix cars could lap so fast on the twisty and demanding Leicestershire circuit . |
| 5 | It assumed it could do so again . |
| 6 | They could do so again , especially now that they are in conflict not only with the West but also with their own leaders and with their mentors ( and military suppliers ) in Serbia . |
| 7 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 8 | We have to find a way of working together , and it would be a lot less wearing , do n't you think , if we could do so amicably ? ’ |
| 9 | She had completed the agreed term of admission of two months and in accordance with the rules of the institution , the parish officers were asked to remove her ; before they could do so however , Mary Storey had died . |
| 10 | 460 in which it was held that an applicant for accommodation who wished to challenge the housing authority 's decision that he was intentionally homeless could do so either by action or by application for judicial review . |
| 11 | So no one-else could do so either . |
| 12 | Clearly , someone who wishes to hedge his exposure to variations in the price of an asset in his portfolio could do so either by purchasing an appropriate forward contract — from a bank perhaps — or by purchasing exchange traded futures . |
| 13 | I could do so easily enough myself . ’ |
| 14 | There was a huge anger welling in Maxim that choked off anything he might have said , a yearning to reach that mugger and snap his arms , which he could do so easily , then kick the helpless manhood out of him … |
| 15 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 16 | Barton , who wanted to telephone his paper , was told he could do so later , ‘ in the nick ’ . |
| 17 | He hoped that he could do so quickly . |
| 18 | The defendant had some reason for wishing to weigh the boilers ; and he could do so only by obtaining permission from the plaintiff , which he did obtain by promising to return them in good condition . |
| 19 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
| 20 | Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently . |
| 21 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 22 | There they sit on reserved seats in the Commons , Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , only metres away from their government counterparts , knowing they could do so much better . |
| 23 | Ma'am when sir when this when this road when these when it is dualled , it will have compl adequate capacity to serve the new settlement and will be the only radial route around Greater York which could do so satisfactorily . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't think a man could feel so deeply for a woman these days ? ’ |
| 25 | I was amazed that someone brought up in nineteenth-century Yorkshire could understand so completely the deprivation and frustration of being a hostage . |
| 26 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 27 | In short sharp breaths , Ace asked him how such an old man could run so fast . |
| 28 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 29 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 30 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |