Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 2 | He paused dramatically , gazing so intently at each child below him that Sam thought he must be scanning their heads for lice . |
| 3 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 4 | He went on : ‘ We 're going to have a jolly good time after waiting so long for this . ’ |
| 5 | The prahu 's very short timbers — designed to give flexibility — were now moving so violently against each other that the water pouring between them required the hand-pumps being manned round the clock . |
| 6 | The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection . |
| 7 | I am not doing so badly at all . ’ |
| 8 | A room that British civil servants moan about but defend the way New Yorkers do New York because it shows how unique they are in coping so splendidly in such surroundings . |
| 9 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 10 | He warned that economic development was lagging so far behind that of the rest of the EC that the EC 's " course towards the single market , monetary union and European unification is in danger of being permanently undermined " . |
| 11 | Why are we relying so heavily on this arbitrary boundary ? |
| 12 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 13 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 14 | Kneeling at Holy Communion was ‘ a sensible witness of minds unfeignedly humbled ’ ; the white surplices of the clergy , so offensive to the Puritans , he described as ‘ suiting so fitly with that lightsome affection of joy , wherein God delighteth when his Saints praise him ’ . |
| 15 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 16 | When he saw her smiling so happily at this offering , he scowled . |
| 17 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |