Example sentences of "so [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning .
2 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 .
3 So just to make it a little bit more exciting And then this is this is it finished off then .
4 Yeah so just to get you so you understand about fractions , you know what 's going on and you can ask intelligent questions and your teacher 'll think , Oh she knows what she 's talking about .
5 Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time .
6 Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two .
7 Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ?
8 Her hand went so quickly to cover her profile and her mouth became so taut , he thought she was going to weep with the same energy .
9 It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them .
10 The grand slogan of North American culture : ‘ I owe , I owe , so off to work I go ’ .
11 He had also come to respect Irina for her ability so rapidly to transform herself into a reasonably well-dressed , reasonably good-looking girl .
12 In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC .
13 No doubt it is because West German voters know their votes will count that they turn out so willingly to use them .
14 Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for .
15 Of course now he did n't have to walk quite so far to do his searching ; but a similar kind of dedication was still required of him , for The Bar contained in a way the streets of the whole city , there were men there from all the different parts of it .
16 But the volunteers have had to borrow one hundred thousand pounds so far to set it up .
17 Though you journey so far to see their ancient endeavours .
18 Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter .
19 Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . "
20 We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us .
21 Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it .
22 The machines that American entrepreneurs have always set up so efficiently to execute their Big Ideas are equally footloose .
23 Although this fate , however tragic , would certainly be preferable to possible torture and execution , I know that Leslie himself , who volunteered so often to do something ‘ useful ’ , would have preferred to be killed actually fighting , like Bradford and Fenwick .
24 so even to get them there
25 ‘ Welcome , we are so please to see you . ’
26 Inside , you can see the actual spot on which Huss stood so bravely to hear his sentence .
27 As to the preparation of the material you would so well to consult your signwriter , usually they specify a well sealed surface as flat as possible , with protective coats of clear gloss applied after the lettering process .
28 Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them .
29 Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him .
30 ‘ That was the scheme , so how to dress it up ?
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