Example sentences of "[verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 2 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 3 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 4 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 5 | The American Ornithologists ' Union became active in 1883 , generating so much information that the government established a Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology in 1886 under C. Hart Merriam ( 1855–1942 ) . |
| 6 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 7 | so hopefully she 'll give me a cheque next week he does n't get frightened so easily now does he ? |
| 8 | These descriptions were vital to writing about these two artists in whose work colour plays so important a part . |
| 9 | I also have a ‘ 63 black Strat which I got recently and that plays so neat ! |
| 10 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |
| 11 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 12 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 13 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 14 | Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’ |
| 15 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 16 | ‘ What I do n't see , ’ Pat says , interposing kindly from her belief that Kate is incapable of replying , ‘ is why you have to go so far . |
| 17 | He insists that they have to go so real equality can be achieved and the class structure ended . |
| 18 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 19 | It might be difficult for the boy to go so late , but there was no other way of educating him properly . |
| 20 | Mike Teague would also be put out if his comeback with second division Moseley were to go so well that he 's in contention for a place . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you have to go so soon ? ’ |
| 22 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 23 | The French king , with fewer resources , was reluctant to go so far . |
| 24 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 25 | Speaking of metronome markings , it 's 40 to the crotchet , and it 's usually taken as 40 to the dotted minim , in short about three times faster , because no one believes the music 's supposed to go so slow . |
| 26 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 27 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 28 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , Gran , I want to go so much . |
| 30 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |