Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night Goblins hate their old rivals the Dwarfs so intensely that they will often fight to the death rather than run away . |
| 2 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 3 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 4 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 5 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 6 | Since the war began , Soviet military commentators , including senior serving officers , have been expressing dismay at seeing Iraq 's army , most of whose tanks and aircraft they supplied , pounded so relentlessly and effectively . |
| 7 | For the onlooker , one of the game 's fascinations , even perhaps a cruel fascination , lies in the complex interrogation of character which cricket so relentlessly and uniquely pursues . |
| 8 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 9 | These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets . |
| 10 | She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her . |
| 11 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 12 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 13 | ‘ Yours , of course , ’ said Mrs Harper , grimly : so grimly that her reply seemed like wit . |
| 14 | He had guided the complex and nerve-wracking work of the international organisation so deftly and with such insight that it was hard to imagine anyone else measuring up to the job . |
| 15 | So presumably if , if Staffordshire have them made and we get those three whizzed up to Caernarvon you know , the rest can sort of fit into place . |
| 16 | So presumably if they do n't get bids for those routes then they they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 17 | He could tell it was long-distance , the line was so gravelly and hollow , but he did n't recognise the voice . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Then why have you developed your powers of hearing so acutely that you are able to detect the click of the gate and the snap of the letter-box , even above the roaring of that vacuum cleaner ? ‘ |
| 20 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |
| 21 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 22 | Later , he had moved away from these classical designs ; he had become interested in Arabic jewellery , she said , and in their techniques of wiring jewels so delicately and invisibly that they moved with their wearer . |
| 23 | She chewed , oh , so delicately and reached towards another dish . |
| 24 | More importantly , the existing upper floor of this outshot proved to be too close to the lean-to roof to give a habitable room-height , so rather than raise up the roof level of the entire extension , it was decided to reduce the level of the upper floor to create adequate headroom . |
| 25 | So rather than chasing alternatives , why not ‘ tune ’ what we have to minimise smog-producing fractions and maximise catalysable elements ? |
| 26 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 27 | How are the cells that will change shape specified to do so rather than all the other cells ? |
| 28 | So rather than use this overworked word a more precise description of the artist 's style and concepts will be attempted with the help of his own text . |
| 29 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |