Example sentences of "so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 2 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 3 | Because he was so devilishly attractive that she could n't resist him ? |
| 4 | We 're so jolly rotten at it . |
| 5 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you look a million dollars , be so terrifically successful in business — and yet your personal life seem to be in such a mess ? ’ |
| 7 | Nor has any of them had to respond so intensely to his wishes . |
| 8 | Brodkey 's prose , stately , handsome , so intensely , so painstakingly devised , is the perfect concomitant of those advertisements for the classic suit or the traditional chair which enhance the magazine 's increasingly implausible air of quilted , buttonbacked ease . |
| 9 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |
| 10 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 11 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 12 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 13 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 14 | for sleeping so intensely ; |
| 15 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions . |
| 17 | Night Goblins hate their old rivals the Dwarfs so intensely that they will often fight to the death rather than run away . |
| 18 | I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’ |
| 19 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 20 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 21 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 22 | Hazily , Meredith tried to recall if they 'd always looked so intensely inviting . |
| 23 | Oh , yes , she recognised the sexual awareness that was an integral part of his attitude towards her , and it made her uneasy , but he could n't really mean to do anything about it when he despised her so intensely . |
| 24 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 25 | She almost wanted to cry , he made her so intensely aware , showed her what ecstasies there might be in store … |
| 26 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 27 | Rachel had always enjoyed being a woman , and delighted in her femininity , her sex appeal , the differences that made her so intensely female . |
| 28 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 29 | Since the war began , Soviet military commentators , including senior serving officers , have been expressing dismay at seeing Iraq 's army , most of whose tanks and aircraft they supplied , pounded so relentlessly and effectively . |
| 30 | This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands . |