Example sentences of "[to-vb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 2 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |
| 3 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 4 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 5 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 6 | Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’ |
| 7 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 8 | ‘ What I do n't see , ’ Pat says , interposing kindly from her belief that Kate is incapable of replying , ‘ is why you have to go so far . |
| 9 | He insists that they have to go so real equality can be achieved and the class structure ended . |
| 10 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 11 | It might be difficult for the boy to go so late , but there was no other way of educating him properly . |
| 12 | Mike Teague would also be put out if his comeback with second division Moseley were to go so well that he 's in contention for a place . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you have to go so soon ? ’ |
| 14 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 15 | The French king , with fewer resources , was reluctant to go so far . |
| 16 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 17 | Speaking of metronome markings , it 's 40 to the crotchet , and it 's usually taken as 40 to the dotted minim , in short about three times faster , because no one believes the music 's supposed to go so slow . |
| 18 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 19 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 20 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Gran , I want to go so much . |
| 22 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 23 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 24 | Now he he 's got ta find somewhere to go so where 's the only p place that 's clear ? |
| 25 | And some of them it 's it 's hard to get them to go so but in general any of the fairly reactive acids and any of the fairly reactive metals they 're going to give you a salt and hydrogen . |
| 26 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't they think it funny you have to go so often ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 29 | I knew the master would not let her leave the safety of the Grange to go so far , especially as the road to the hills passed close to Wuthering Heights . |
| 30 | I — I could n't just go in and — and I had nowhere to go so … ’ |