Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb base] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never can these songs have sounded so original , so achingly tense as here . |
| 2 | He does not so much sit as squat upon the rug , kneeled over the low table as though in prayer . |
| 3 | This is appropriate , for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly . |
| 4 | They were eight-sided crystals set at regular intervals in the walls and ceiling , and they shed a rather unpleasant glow that did n't so much illuminate as outline the darkness . |
| 5 | But then we have to move with Ulysses to a huge spinning-top of words which defies such judgements and leaves us clutching at apparently familiar images which so sooner appear than they are gone . |
| 6 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 7 | Sergei , our interpreter , had been known to get so hopelessly inebriate as to be incapable of speech , let alone translation . |
| 8 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 9 | This highlighted the real success of such operations — the netting of the big men behind the scenes who so often escape while the small-fry are caught red-handed . |
| 10 | Remember the chances are you will never need hospice care , but somebody you know will — so please help if you can . ’ |
| 11 | Attempted cores turn out to be highly simplistic generalisations that satisfy very few people , but carry many dogmatic messages which are in fact controversial and so therefore masquerade as being objective . |