Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , John was unable to recover from the hunger , thirst and cold he had endured alone for so long and he died peacefully on 3rd November , 1835 , 3 days after he was rescued . |
| 3 | trills , very loud for so small a bird . ’ |
| 4 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 5 | When Henry Fielding introduces the word ‘ pages ’ into his stage coach metaphor ( 'As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages ' ) he reminds his audience that they are reading a book . |
| 6 | Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 8 | Smarties type egg so about so big |
| 9 | I think having I think having waited so patiently for so long that you can wait a little lo further . |
| 10 | Whereas Zen knew that the truth prevailed , if at all , only after so much time had passed that it had become meaningless , like a senile prisoner who can safely be released , his significance forgotten , his friends dead , a babbling idiot . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 12 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 13 | Definitely not battery operated around here , especially with so much room . |
| 14 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 15 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 16 | That it will reach 130mph was no surprise but to do so with so little fuss and noise was impressive . |
| 17 | He probably lies somewhere out on the Steppes , together with so many of his companions . |
| 18 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 19 | North , at the public hearings , denied that he ran a war from his desk , but he told his aide Craig Coy that he was doing so in so many words . |
| 20 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 21 | Only in so much that there was er |
| 22 | An so on so fifty pence is fifty over one fifty is n't it ? |
| 23 | Nothing is invisible to radar , but a stealthy aircraft shows up over the background noise only at so close a range that radar , which has dominated air and combat for two generations , is virtually useless against it . |
| 24 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 25 | ‘ Not easy after so long to guarantee accuracy . |
| 26 | Third generation copies of standard-format originals are generally of so poor a quality as to be unacceptable . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been a privilege to have you as a student … ah , but your French is already of so excellent a quality … and you are occupied with your researches . |
| 28 | She ca n't believe photographers can get away with so much here , ’ said her manager during that visit to London , Jason 's trusted right hand man Richard East . |
| 29 | I think it 's their attitude because with Mr Price we get away with so much and then he says , no , and we have a real good old time . |
| 30 | That 's why the statesmen can get away with so much , ’ he said . |