Example sentences of "about so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 2 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 3 | But China , Taiwan and the ASEAN countries , as well as Japan , are leery about so exclusive a grouping . |
| 4 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 5 | However deeply you care for your children , without knowledge of how they develop , how their experiences affect their personalities , you ca n't give them this … this birthright you talk about so glibly . |
| 6 | It is , in fact , impossible for management to have a direct , personal feeling and knowledge about so many business environments . |
| 7 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 8 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose that is what I find so fascinating about so many American women . ’ |
| 10 | How could one live with someone , love someone to distraction and be blind or , at least , allow oneself to be kept in the dark about so many things ? |
| 11 | With this it dawned on me what they were talking about so I became more attentive . |
| 12 | There were many trees and shrubs about so visibility was rather restricted , a footpath crossed both railway and stream just below Millwood , and there was a large detached residence . |
| 13 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 14 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 15 | There are n't many flowers about so early in the year . |
| 16 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 17 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 18 | The roadside parking was more limited in those days , but of course there were far fewer cars about so we had no problems on that score , and the walk up to the lower tier was over in minutes . |
| 19 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 20 | We were due to leave Canjuers four days afterwards and there was much to think about so nothing was done . |
| 21 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 22 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 23 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 24 | This was the city she had dreamt about so often , and although it was not quite as clean and fairy-like as she had imagined , it possessed a quality of age and empire . |
| 25 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
| 26 | and I I 've thought about it and I 've thought about so many of them today I ca n't I 'm getting confused at which one it is . |
| 27 | Because you 've asked me about so many of them . |
| 28 | you just ca n't understand what it 's on about so |
| 29 | No one about so she went in . |
| 30 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |