Example sentences of "so [adv] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 2 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 3 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 4 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 5 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 6 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 7 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 8 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 9 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 10 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 11 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
| 12 | And 6 per cent is better than 5 , 7 per cent better than 6 , and so on up the gradual , continuous series . |
| 13 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 14 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 15 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
| 16 | Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line . |
| 17 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
| 18 | And so on down the years the litany of excitement and drama has continued . |
| 19 | We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow . |
| 20 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |
| 21 | And he exited so violently down the throat of Hell that he ripped the tongue and set the snout bobbing as if Hell were about to sneeze . |