Example sentences of "[verb] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is characteristic of the popular movement in the mid-seventeenth century that someone who helped to formulate an effective compromise on a crucial and contentious constitutional issue should remain so obscure a figure . |
| 2 | It was agreed however that a ‘ Red Lion Roundabout ’ should remain so named , even if the pub later changed its name to ‘ Rose and Crown . ’ |
| 3 | you would n't think so looking at him . |
| 4 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 5 | Hello , hello girl , yes please a dozen , yeah , er no I do n't think so , no I do n't think so mate , no , yeah are you on holiday this week ? |
| 6 | You would n't think so to look at her would you ? |
| 7 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 8 | I do n't think so do n't think so . |
| 9 | I do n't think so love there 's the first of the money lender so only a big one , once |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd never think so to read the papers recently , ’ Fiona pointed out , lines creasing her forehead . |
| 11 | Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer . |
| 12 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 13 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 14 | They became so engrossed in their chattering , that they did not notice a customer who came up behind them . |
| 15 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 16 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 17 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 18 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 19 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 20 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 21 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 22 | Terry Wogan became so absorbed with her that he ran the interview into the closing music , leaving him scant time to promote his next programme — very unusual . |
| 23 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 24 | He could never understand why June became so irritated by his ‘ never reading the directions ’ . |
| 25 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 26 | A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications . |
| 27 | The mother-of-two became so distressed her hair fell out . |
| 28 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 29 | One major American corporation became so enthralled by the spell of its spreadsheet model that it lost touch with reality and some $80M disappeared ! |
| 30 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |