Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could tell it was long-distance , the line was so gravelly and hollow , but he did n't recognise the voice . |
| 2 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 3 | So rather than pay nine pounds ninety pence it 's claimed that many lorry drivers take a detour through gloucester , then heading back down the A48 through Newhnam . |
| 4 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 5 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 6 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 7 | Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test . |
| 8 | His fellow pupils at school suffered so badly that Mary became a constant visitor to the headmaster 's study , and Gary was banned from the playground . |
| 9 | ‘ Roman was hurt so badly when Gabriella died . |
| 10 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 11 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 12 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 13 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 14 | ‘ Hey , that 's not like you , looking so down and weepy . ’ |
| 15 | So perhaps if people were aware of some of the places where wasps can go within their home , they might be able to sort of take those conscious That was n't actually what I had |
| 16 | You need to wee so perhaps when daddy goes up |
| 17 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 18 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 19 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 20 | So obviously if Mike 's been chosen once or he 's done it he does n't want somebody asking him again . |
| 21 | So suddenly that Jed jumped . |
| 22 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 23 | So basically if Lincoln draw tonight then they 'll finish top and Mansfield will be second , if er Lincoln win they 'll be top and Mansfield will be second . |
| 24 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 26 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 27 | This freedom — to publish , of the press , of the media — should remain intact so long as laws are not broken . |
| 28 | Where the prosecution fails to establish intention , the offence will be reduced to the lower category , to be considered in section 8.3 ( c ) below , so long as recklessness is proved . |
| 29 | Game theory demonstrates that it is usually most adaptive to be variable or unpredictable , so long as evolution or personal experience takes care to set the odds appropriately . |
| 30 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |