Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 3 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 6 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 7 | You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair . |
| 8 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 9 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |
| 10 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |
| 11 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 12 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 13 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 14 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 15 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " 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 . " |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 22 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 23 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 24 | It does n't matter Charlotte , so long as he colours it in |
| 25 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 26 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 27 | The homosexual male is fine — is pretty good news , in fact , on the whole — so long as he knows he 's homosexual . |
| 28 | Darlington Tory association chairman Bill Smith said in Saturday 's story that Fallon could have the constituency nomination so long as he wanted it . |
| 29 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 30 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |