Example sentences of "and [prep] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for so little money ! |
| 2 | He squeezed her so hard that she gasped , and for so long that Carrie grew restless . |
| 3 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 4 | I doubt whether I should ever have experienced such wealth and depth of love , from and for so many , had I not followed … my vocation . ’ |
| 5 | Such consent helps to provide uniformity among the police forces when considering prosecuting for an offence which can be committed in so many different ways and for so many different reasons . |
| 6 | For one with such a full programme it was good of Dr. Stewart to spend the whole day with us but she had expressed the wish to see as much as possible of our work and it was a tremendous pleasure to have her with us and for so many to have the opportunity of chatting with her . |
| 7 | erm so many for the dates and for so many for the |
| 8 | And for so little thanks ! |
| 9 | I was shocked to hear of her death and of so many others all over the country . ’ |
| 10 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 11 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 12 | And with so much theatre training available in the United States , New Zealand , Australia and Canada , it is interesting to ask why British theatre training is thought to be so beneficial . |
| 13 | But mud slung in such quantities and with so much acrimony is bound to stick somewhere , and the overall impression being given is that while the law may be an ass , the profession of psychology is an even bigger one . |
| 14 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 15 | But if he suffers to this extent by comparison with Barth , he towers over most other theologians of his generation ; and it is more than a little sad that two men so gifted and with so much in common should not have managed to remain closer to each other . |
| 16 | And with so much wood in the room , a natural colour scheme has been chosen to complement it . |
| 17 | ‘ But we took the foot off the pedal in the second half , and with so much at stake that 's not good enough . ’ |
| 18 | Games between the two Irelands never have been and with so much at stake , both in terms of points and pride it would be a mite optimistic to forecast something like 3–2 . |
| 19 | I could hardly believe that this was to be the end of the public life of a man so comparatively young , and with so much still to give … |
| 20 | and with so much steam coming from the forwards all the signs were that Gloucester were going to take sale to the cleaners … |
| 21 | It does not take too much thought to work out who would be held mainly to blame , with today 's mass unemployment figures and with so much poverty around , does it ? |
| 22 | They would n't want to be near warehousing units of course but erm there 's a lot of new building going on and with so much competition Thinking of Imelda for a job , I mean there 's , there 's loads of places here as well for her Exeter Hospital you know the Torbay . |
| 23 | A power-play goal by Searle half-way through the second period made it 5-4 and with so many minutes left on the clock , a decisive result looked certain . |
| 24 | Miss Scott-Russell 's 65 ( 82 — 17 ) appears to qualify but seems surprisingly high with as much as seven years passing since the course 's opening and with so many county players in the Club . |
| 25 | And with so many publishers completing so many courses in 1993 , it will be very interesting to see what is published for whom next year , and whether it is the market or the applied linguist who call the shots . |
| 26 | With Josephine Butler [ q.v. ] for an aunt , and with so many relatives in literary , philanthropic , and educational circles , Violet was almost predestined to a life of social service . |
| 27 | And with so many work-hungry applicants to choose from , the millmasters had never felt obliged to pay very much . |
| 28 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 29 | There an auditor was to certify the value of shares " and in so certifying … shall … act as an expert and not as an arbitrator " . |
| 30 | It seems to be happening far too often , and I wonder i I wonder what 's actually going wrong that this happening so often and in so many places , seems to be something that you know , perhaps we need to address it far more generally as a problem of housing management as a whole . |