Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 2 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 3 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 4 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |
| 5 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 6 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 10 | It does n't matter Charlotte , so long as he colours it in |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Darlington Tory association chairman Bill Smith said in Saturday 's story that Fallon could have the constituency nomination so long as he wanted it . |
| 13 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 14 | So long as I keep it up I am still in charge of my own destiny . |
| 15 | I thought I 'd give you that opportunity cos it is a little ARC publication , it 's one that we er So so if you want it . |
| 16 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 17 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 18 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 19 | So far as I understand it my options are one of the following : |
| 20 | So far as you see it |
| 21 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 22 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 23 | I disapprove of diets so strongly because I think it 's wrong suddenly to deprive your body of certain foods . |
| 24 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 25 | Lastly , which is something we all reach eventually , hopefully , is what we call unconscious competence , when you know how to do something so well that you do it un without thinking , it 's like driving . |