Example sentences of "[vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 4 | so hopefully she 'll give me a cheque next week he does n't get frightened so easily now does he ? |
| 5 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 6 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 7 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 9 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 10 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 11 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 12 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 13 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 14 | I have not heard so much of this recently . |
| 15 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 16 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 17 | I 've heard so many of you say ‘ Oh yes , I 'd like to knit that but I have n't time to punch the card or mark the mylar sheet ’ . |
| 18 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 20 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 21 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 22 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 23 | Probably the best song on ‘ Mighty Like A Rose ’ and definitely the best of the Costello collaborations with Paul McCartney that we 've heard so far . |
| 24 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 25 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 26 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 29 | The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we 'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end . |
| 30 | I 've heard so much about her , I 'm just longing to meet her . |