Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But , as the French report so politely puts it : |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | THE Danish cargo vessel Bettina Danca , aground on Stroma in the Pentland Firth , is now so badly damaged it would be impossible to refloat her , Orkney 's harbour director , Captain Bob Sclater , said yesterday . |
| 13 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 14 | Why he never troubled to publish his knowledge , I do not know , except that he was an aristocrat , and so perhaps considered it beneath him to publish . |
| 15 | As Henry James so memorably put it in his great essay , ‘ The Art of Fiction ’ , ‘ Experience is never limited , and it is never complete … |
| 16 | Of course , he could want the word ‘ abverb' ( as in ‘ pleasur ab ly' ) , but I so much doubt it that I 'd bet on it . ’ |
| 17 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 18 | So better get it sooner or later . |
| 19 | But as you 've spent so long thinking it over , I suspect that , deep down , you 've decided it is n't really worth the risk . |
| 20 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 21 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 22 | Hard disk drives are sensitive to static electricity so only unpack it when you are ready to install it . |
| 23 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |
| 24 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 25 | What redress is there to be for independent bankers who are to be immune from dismissal and are to have , as Pöhl so quaintly put it , ‘ adequate financial arrangements during and after their term in office ’ ? |
| 26 | But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again . |
| 27 | So just write it as six times ten or ten times six . |
| 28 | So just flogging it to death |
| 29 | So just treat it like a Sunday . |
| 30 | so just forget it 's there . |