Example sentences of "we [verb] so " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman . |
2 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
3 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
4 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
5 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
8 | They 're not angst-ridden outsiders and they exhibit no signs of the burgeoning self-importance , self-pity and self-aggrandisement we became so used to during John Hughes ' years as Tycoon of Teen . |
9 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
10 | Yeah well Robert said why have we stopped so I said I think we 're looking because it 's a typical new house and daddy wants to see what typical new houses now offer . |
11 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
12 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
13 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
14 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
15 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
16 | We got so that , I mean , especially if we 're going out at night and something 's |
17 | thing we got so many of each yes . |
18 | No we got so many of them that erm , I 'll , I 'll |
19 | Yeah , last year we got so much equipment ah the that 's just a there , but |
20 | We got so soaked . |
21 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
22 | We concentrate so much on parental disappointment that we forget the other face of the coin . |
23 | ‘ Since you remember those moments we shared so vividly , my prowess as a lover must have left some impression on you , ’ he gritted toughly , then , his eyes glinting dangerously , he told her , straight from the shoulder , ‘ Though in actual fact I was n't talking of our time on your bed , but of your interest in my financial standing ! ’ |
24 | Take the long view : did we need so many Wolf Cubs ? |
25 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
26 | I know some people listening to this in this area might say well do we need so many tourists . |
27 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
28 | Though , to be sure , in my day we used so much powder one could n't always tell . ’ |
29 | The reason this seems paradoxical is that we place so much emphasis on natural selection as the driving force of evolution . |
30 | It 's a common disease , so why do we know so little about it ? |