Example sentences of "we [vb base] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers . |
| 2 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 3 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 4 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 5 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 7 | In his version of Pearl published in 1975 Tolkien translated that last line as ‘ We meet on our roads by chance so rare ’ , but probably ‘ We meet so seldom by stock or by stone ’ is better . |
| 8 | How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane . |
| 9 | We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer . |
| 10 | Photos of my mum taken twenty-five years ago could be of me , we look so alike — but she does think I 'm too scruffy . |
| 11 | We hear so much talk these days about green issues . |
| 12 | I have left behind a perfect segment of the universe we inhabit so blindly . |
| 13 | And , as we know so well , the Holy Spirit fell on the day of pentecost with tongues as of fire . |
| 14 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 15 | For instance , sea slugs , a type of mollusc , live in the tidal zones around our coasts and most species are more brightly coloured than the equivalent land slugs which we know so well . |
| 16 | These are n't the morbid denizens of the void we know so well ( from other Penelope Spheeris movies ) , these are no sallow-skinned satanists . |
| 17 | Mr Wood , who retires later this year , said : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Wood said of the figures : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well . |
| 19 | ‘ Based on what we know so far , I think it 's the husband . ’ |
| 20 | Rainbow and Clint ( OK , her name now appears to be Annie ; that 's all we know so far ) are getting on a treat . |
| 21 | That we know so much today is due to the dedication and persistence of Hedwige Boesch-Achermann and zoologist Christophe Boesch . |
| 22 | ‘ We get so very tired here in the islands . ’ |
| 23 | Good , O K , let's see how we get so far , before we come to the last question . |
| 24 | We feel so strongly about this that we would say even in a course offered by a University in Britain it would be most desirable for students to ground their work in some hands-on experience in a Third World setting . ’ |
| 25 | He knows there are times when we feel so deeply and yet so confusedly that we can not frame petitions , but simply come in silent pleading to the Lord . |
| 26 | ‘ We feel so very sorry for this girl , coming all this way for nothing . |
| 27 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 28 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 29 | The other reason we claim so often to be arguing about a matter of principle is that there is so little substance in many arguments that a reference to principle is necessary in order to sustain the argument . |
| 30 | They are the reason we play so well in our stadium , ’ said Broose . |