Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 2 | All their friends are doing it , and they are aware that never again will they be in the situation where young people of similar ages , interests and academic abilities can mingle so freely and in such numbers . |
| 3 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 4 | and because they wo n't break so easily and erm , they 're light because you do n't want to drag down to the floor do you ? basically |
| 5 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 6 | You swore each and every one of you to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence … |
| 7 | You swore each and every one of you , to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence and let the chips lie where they fall . |
| 8 | Why then , given the emphasis on the value of education amongst first generation Caribbeans , do their children do so abysmally and , further , show little interest or desire to do well at school ? |
| 9 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to tax people more rigorously , he should do so openly and not in the disguised form in which that is proposed . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ If the Scottish Secretary wishes to make a statement then he should do so openly and publicly and not allow his young office staff to brief members of the press off the record . |
| 11 | I feel it should do so now and not keep us waiting . |
| 12 | You will do so quietly and clearly , and you will tell me the truth . |
| 13 | How strange , though , that the report running inside my own head can quote so freely and copiously from the report running inside Summerchild 's . |
| 14 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 15 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 16 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 17 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |
| 18 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 19 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 20 | Why , oh , why had he let her go so easily and why , oh , why was he doing this to her now ? |
| 21 | ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’ |
| 22 | A man will go so far and then he will snap . |
| 23 | Peter would go so far and then no further , till I was bright scarlet from Guthrie 's ministrations and nothing from Peter . |
| 24 | it 'll go so far and then it just switches off |
| 25 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 26 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 27 | Because if not , you 'd better say so now and I 'll go away and never bother you again . |
| 28 | ‘ No style of building , ’ wrote Mr Ould , Hill Bark 's architect , of half-timbering , ‘ will harmonize so quickly and completely with its surroundings … and none continues to live on such terms of good fellowship with other materials , whether rosy brickwork , grey lichen covered masonry , or pearly flag-slates . ’ |