Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues .
2 She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile .
3 Besides , she did n't feel so wonderful that she wanted a boat ride to the mainland just yet , even if it did mean staying shut up here with only this moody man for company .
4 Next day I did n't feel so bad and I made an appearance for a charity — I really had to do it — then went to visit a relative the following day .
5 ‘ That do n't change anything , ’ said Bonanza , but he did n't sound so convincing as he had a moment before .
6 And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle .
7 It did n't sound so bad if she said it like that — family — no threat to Glyn 's ego .
8 And the £24,000 motor did n't look so new when it was found scratched a few hours later in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear .
9 I do n't speak so good cos I 've got some teeth out and I 've got to have
10 I want to be drunk too , so I do n't feel so sober and hated .
11 Oh yeah erm do n't laugh so loud cos you 're likely cut out the microphone .
12 Do n't get do n't get so , it is , do n't get so paranoid because no next Friday 's the twenty sixth .
13 And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all .
14 Okay , okay , do n't get so mad and hectic .
15 Even the Indians do n't seem so sure that I 'm not Firmin all the time and Matt 's Antonio .
16 Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed .
17 It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome .
18 All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now .
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