Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 2 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 3 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 4 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 5 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 6 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 7 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 8 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 9 | There 's so much going on in Ibiza it 's easy to put together some really great trips . |
| 10 | She clearly had no time for Burley Woodhead when there was so much going on in Bradford . |
| 11 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 12 | Why not visit the Amphitheatre and watch one of the exciting International Shows or perhaps you will find something else to do — there is so much going on from Fashion Shows to Jazz Festivals . |
| 13 | ‘ There was so much going on around him after the World Cup , I 'm not sure even he knew what was going on . |
| 14 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 15 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 16 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 17 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 18 | " The autumn gales 'll be on us in a few weeks , and the volunteers wo n't be so easy to come by after that . " |
| 19 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 20 | And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 21 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 22 | So six shared out between two we 've shared it between two people they 'd get three each . |
| 23 | And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn . |
| 24 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 25 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 26 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 27 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 28 | A young person officially comes of age at eighteen but , when so many go on to higher education and training after leaving school , even that does not mark the end of dependence on parents or state . |
| 29 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 30 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |