Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 2 | I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions . |
| 3 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 4 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 5 | But this renewed social concern benefitted from the lessons of the preceding decades by being more realistic — and so arguably achieving more . |
| 6 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 7 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 8 | Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth ; it 's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green . |
| 9 | Thank goodness his humour so rarely seeps out . ) |
| 10 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 11 | You are so incredibly screwed up and lonely that you feel the need to scapegoat and stereotype your neighbours . |
| 12 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 13 | She planned a thesis on the works of Carlo Crivelli , so briefly mentioned in 1894 by Berenson , so little mentioned since . |
| 14 | There 's so little work around so it 's marvellous if you can generate it yourself . ’ |
| 15 | The same spotted coat that conceals the leopard so successfully has also been its undoing . |
| 16 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 17 | This is the face of Gavin Lees , so badly beaten even his own father did n't recognise him . |
| 18 | Would Merymose , who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself , be able to feel any sympathy at all ? |
| 19 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 20 | He watched the two girls , who , to do them justice , thanked him very nicely , they were n't so badly brought up when you came to think about it , approach the shop by the side door . |
| 21 | Ferguson then said he would buy the title for the fans he had so badly let down . |
| 22 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 23 | Vital grain supplies due in from Siberia were so badly held up that in January 1922 the national Council of Labour and Defence sent there Felix Dzerzhinsky , the head of the secret police , and since April 1921 Commissar for Transport . |
| 24 | Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out . |
| 25 | Paul wants so badly to look away . |
| 26 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |
| 27 | Bureaucracy , which was so brilliantly analysed so long ago by Max Weber ( 1922 ) , is based on legal-style directives and rational — though slow — procedures . |
| 28 | You wo n't touch me , you have n't done a thing for this goddam exhibition you were so all fired up about , and it 's OK ? |
| 29 | Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it |
| 30 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |