Example sentences of "it [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 2 | If the language is slang , what does it matter so long as the preachers are radiant with the experience they speak of , and live in the midst of the same social situation , with all its problems and difficulties , as the listeners ? |
| 3 | Alas , there is no way this can be overcome but it occurs so rarely that it is not in itself an outstanding problem . |
| 4 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |
| 5 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
| 6 | It happened so fast that Mike was left with his arm still outstretched , towards the dinner-jacketed body of his brother . |
| 7 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 8 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
| 9 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 10 | if you go in a freezer and it shrivels so then if you go in the fridge |
| 11 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 12 | It borrowed so heavily that the greater part of its peacetime revenue was mortgaged to service and repay its debt . |
| 13 | It grinned so broadly that both ends almost met behind its head . |
| 14 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 15 | It rusts so quickly and so sort of firmly it forms a very thin film of aluminium oxide on the surface . |
| 16 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 17 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 18 | At sea it rolled so violently that passengers on upper decks were far less ill than those in the special saloon . |
| 19 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 20 | It went so well that the consultancy is now planning to hold more top notch dinners at Cottons . |
| 21 | It did so well that the King gave a charter to the ‘ gentlemen adventuring into Hudson 's Bay ’ which allowed them a monopoly of trade in the whole area of the rivers and streams running into the Bay . |
| 22 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 23 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 24 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 25 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 26 | It does so indirectly as probably the most important forum of opinion and vehicle of publicity in relation to the Executive 's other chief constitutional responsibility — to the electorate . |
| 27 | Should it fail so spectacularly as to break up , the ‘ specialist in unpaid work ’ is left with depleted earning power . |
| 28 | It looked very attractive until it was washed , when it stretched so appallingly that it reached to her knees ! |
| 29 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |
| 30 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |