Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He listened so politely that I perhaps talked a little too much about my dear country . |
| 3 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 4 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 5 | I heard Rachel — you know , that miseryguts with a face like a reflection in a spoon — saying that they reckoned Hambury was all right because nobody ever complains . |
| 6 | Okay now while you 're explaining is it all right if I just use your toilet ? |
| 7 | I mean all right and I just ticked him off . |
| 8 | For a moment his attractiveness shone so powerfully that it almost sabotaged the warning bells sounding strident alarm inside Charity 's head . |
| 9 | She fell heavily and the raised hoof caught Maggie on the shoulder so powerfully that she too fell , pain washing over her like fire . |
| 10 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 11 | The candle flickered again , so badly that it almost flickered out . |
| 12 | For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow . |
| 13 | And perhaps , the little thought insisted , Feargal would not view her quite so badly if she actually did something that could n't be misinterpreted . |
| 14 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 15 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 16 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 17 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 18 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 19 | Even by April 1973 , when the final decision had been taken , it still weighed heavily on Jackie : so much so that he finally sought advice from an Anglican priest and prayed God to give him enlightenment . |
| 20 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 21 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 22 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 23 | He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell . |
| 24 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone can say they have no quarrel with people so long as they always get their own way . ’ |
| 26 | Right , so long as we then strike yellow , we can put it in . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're safe , so long as nobody else finds out . |
| 28 | The parents would cooperate all right , so long as nobody else interfered . |
| 29 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 30 | ‘ So long as he still has silver to pay us with , ’ Flodwig said . |