Example sentences of "[modal v] so [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 2 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 3 | I burn with unrequited lust , he thought , surprised that a cliché should so accurately express what he was feeling . |
| 4 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 5 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 6 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 7 | Capirossi realises the pressures of success could so easily damage his plans to retain the 125 crown , and so he 's all the more determined to do everything just as he did in 1990 . |
| 8 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 9 | But why would a man like Ipuky go to such lengths , when , if he felt that Huy was a threat , he could so easily have him killed ? |
| 10 | Conversely , if you have a serious disagreement with your boss , it could so adversely affect your standing in the firm that you may decide you would be better off elsewhere . |
| 11 | No wonder he did n't ‘ go for redheads ’ , as he 'd so crudely put it . |
| 12 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 13 | As to the preparation of the material you would so well to consult your signwriter , usually they specify a well sealed surface as flat as possible , with protective coats of clear gloss applied after the lettering process . |
| 14 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |
| 15 | I doubt if I shall meet anyone else in 1982 who will so powerfully impress me as she did . " |
| 16 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 17 | Having fun is one of our essential needs as human beings yet we can so easily ignore it . |
| 18 | Our emotional temperature can so easily make itself felt to others . |
| 19 | ’ Gustave complains in this letter to Bouilhet about the dangers of planning a project too thoroughly : ‘ It seems to me , alas , that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born , you do n't get horny enough actually to father them . ’ |
| 20 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |