Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis Morgan would no doubt ring him too , but he was naturally so shaken that McLeish thought that small piece of insurance worthwhile . |
| 2 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 3 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 4 | Shortly after this , we arrive in the village of Câmara de Lobos ( 9km ) , an attractive fishing village so named because Zarco saw seals here ( lobos means ‘ wolves ’ , i.e. ‘ sea wolves ’ ) . |
| 5 | The car park — so named because Chichester is twinned with Chartres in France — is included among 29 regional winners which go forward for national awards later this year . |
| 6 | But law apart , why were people so threatened when Jesus and Peter associated with non-Jews ? |
| 7 | Leonora lay with her eyes closed , so absorbed that Penry was obliged to turn off the radio to gain her attention . |
| 8 | The Colonel 's vain attempt to get a word in was so sharply smothered and he looked so rattled that Clarissa sat down again . |
| 9 | The influence of national political considerations on local electoral behaviour is so marked that Newton considers that ‘ the term ‘ local election ’ is something of a misnomer … . |
| 10 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 11 | Funds , it seems , are so restricted that South Africa have only two official representatives in New Zealand this week for IRB business and the New Zealand RFU 's centenary celebrations , which include three matches against a 26-strong World squad . |
| 12 | There are signs , however , that Kelly and company may not be quite so entrenched as McKeag would like to think . |
| 13 | She had so hoped that Josh would like David ‘ He s tired , ’ she apologized , and took Josh off for his afternoon nap He kicked and screamed , furious that his mother 's attention was being distracted from himself . |
| 14 | By further eroding the definition of spiritualia , the regalian exploitation of episcopal vacancies was now so extended that Edward claimed to fill livings — vicarages as well as rectories — emptied during an episcopal vacancy retrospectively , even if it had occurred during his father 's reign . |
| 15 | the odds are against them … the bookies do n't give them a chance … but never never write off a team driven by a man so determined as Horton |