Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 2 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 4 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 5 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 6 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 7 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 8 | She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else . |
| 9 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 10 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 11 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 12 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 13 | You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair . |
| 14 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 15 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |
| 16 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |
| 17 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 18 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 19 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 20 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 21 | The sovereign is under a constitutional duty to accept the advice of her ministers tendered through her chief minister so long as they command her confidence — so long , that is , as they command a majority in Parliament . |
| 22 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 24 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 25 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 26 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 27 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 28 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 29 | So so long as we get something . |
| 30 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |