Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 2 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 3 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 4 | There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law . |
| 5 | Our women suffer so much , but usually they do n't come out and complain . |
| 6 | O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace . |
| 7 | Lucky child , to be so well cared for while others suffer so much ! |
| 8 | ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman . |
| 9 | Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power . |
| 10 | It 's a bunch that rides steadily , guided by experienced domestiques who know how to keep going and not lose so much time that they will be eliminated from the Tour as a whole . |
| 11 | And why does any star which is radiating energy not lose so much mass ( thanks to E=MC 2 ) that gravity can no longer hold it together ? |
| 12 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 13 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |
| 14 | I 've never known a dog eat so many wasps ! |
| 15 | Now you know why you eat so many of 'em . |
| 16 | My volunteers really loved it and they could n't believe they could actually lose weight yet eat so much . |
| 17 | The first is the breaching of further injunctions , such as ‘ Worthwhile people do n't get so tired , need a drink before school , smoke so much , eat so much , behave so badly to their friends , feel so bottled up , become so forgetful ’ or whatever . |
| 18 | And they all eat so much food ! |
| 19 | ‘ It shocks a lot of people , they do n't believe that I eat so much . |
| 20 | I do n't know , perhaps not eat so much rich rich food . |
| 21 | They eat so much . |
| 22 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 23 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 24 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 25 | Seaweed dangling from the metal struts like matted hair , wind so rough against his skin . |
| 26 | I do n't think they sell so many . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did your brother dislike Burghgesh so much ? ’ |
| 28 | I wanner be me if you wanner know an' woss so wrong wiv vat . |
| 29 | Like sunnink reely glamorous that everyone wants an' I ca n't see woss so wrong wiv vat. 'Cos I ai n't gonner get no kitchen wiv pitcher winders an' some geezer wiv a pipe like you was on abaht am I now ? |
| 30 | We might expect the throne for some generations to be occupied by a more or less yellow king ; but can any one believe that the whole island will gradually acquire a white , or even a yellow population , or that the islanders would acquire the energy , courage , ingenuity , patience , self-control , endurance , in virtue of which qualities our hero killed so many of their ancestors , and begot so many children ; these qualities , in fact , which the struggle for existence would select , if it could select anything ? |