Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] they [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 5 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 6 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " 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 . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 15 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 16 | With pragmatism truth and usefulness become fused : ‘ ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience . ’ |
| 17 | Schegloff has made studies of the rules of conversation in so far as they govern who speaks when , and how we know when it is our turn to speak . |
| 18 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 19 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 20 | Their understanding of social action is a ‘ realist ’ one , in so far as they believe there to be general , deep-lying mechanisms affecting human conduct which are triggered in different ways by contingent social circumstances . |
| 21 | Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations . |
| 22 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 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 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |