I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
A dozen or so (= about 12 )
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A dozen or so cars were parked near the entrance.
a mile or so (= about a mile or possibly a little more )
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There’s a motel a mile or so down the road .
believe so (= think that something is true )
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‘Have they arrived yet?’ ‘Yes, I believe so.’
especially so
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A depreciation of the dollar would make US exports cheaper and especially so in Japan.
ever so slightly
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He leaned forward ever so slightly .
feel so inclined
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You can visit our chat rooms, if you feel so inclined .
felt so alone
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I cried like a child because I felt so alone .
for so long
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I haven’t seen her for so long that I’ve forgotten what she looks like.
I fear so/I fear not
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‘Were they satisfied?’ ‘I fear not.’
I presume so
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‘Are his parents still alive?’ ' I presume so .’
I suppose so
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‘Can we come with you?’ ‘Oh, I suppose so .’
I suppose so
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‘Aren’t you pleased?’ ‘Yes, I suppose so .’
if so,
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Is the book available, and if so, where?
It...happened so fast
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It all happened so fast I didn’t even notice I was bleeding.
I’m afraid so (= yes )
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‘Is she very ill?’ ‘ I’m afraid so .’
not so hot/not very hot informal (= not very good )
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Some of the tracks on the record are great, but others are not so hot.
resemble nothing so much as sth (= look or seem rather like something )
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The building resembled nothing so much as giant beehive.
say so
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If you don’t know the answer, don’t be afraid to say so.
so I hear/so I’ve heard spoken (= used to say that you have been told something or know it already )
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There’s a nasty infection going round, so I hear.
so I hear/so I’ve heard spoken (= used to say that you have been told something or know it already )
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There’s a nasty infection going round, so I hear.
So it seems (= that seems to be true )
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‘So Bill’s leaving her?’ ‘ So it seems .’
so it would appear (= used to say that something seems likely to be true, although you are not completely sure )
so many
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There are so many things we disagree about.
so much
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It was such a small thing to have caused so much trouble.
so much
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We’re looking forward to your visit so much .
so tired (that)
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I’m so tired I could sleep for a week.
Without so much as (= he did not even say thank you as he should have done )
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Without so much as a word of thanks, Ben turned and went back into the office .
‘What’s so funny?’
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His laughter stopped her mid-sentence. ‘What’s so funny?’ she demanded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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And the weather outside sounded so bad that it seemed wise to stay as she was a little longer.
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I iced him so bad when he bossed me, he might never be back.
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Not so bad really, eh?
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My handwriting is so bad now that a computer is absolutely necessary for me.
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As for United, 1-0 doesn't sound so bad , but the players know its nowhere near good enough.
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Get the moment he first heard the news or observed the thing which made him feel so bad .
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Ben's injuries were so bad he needed regular check-ups for six months.
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They pretended things were not so bad .
far
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The Schlieffen Plan as implemented in 1914 had been the most grandiose product so far of this cast of thought.
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Consider each one separately and try to apply the guidelines and hints that have been offered so far .
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Blackburn Rovers have spent £10 million so far and seem willing to lash out even more on overpriced players.
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Stuart must have rung my boudoir and learned how the telephone is answered in about fifteen languages so far .
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Operation Desert Storm, by contrast, seems so far to have been supplied without a hitch - thanks to computers.
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Documentary proof of 147 deaths had been found so far .
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I think they've had it easy so far .
good
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I am thinking particularly of one of the Bushmen you knew who was so good at imitating a professor.
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Johnny and Carmen are sweethearts, but Carmen loves Zander, because he looks so good in uniform.
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She's now so good at them, that the Magic Circle's just made her its youngest member.
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The Super Bowl should be so good .
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But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.
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Everything is so good for me now.
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I don't think the interview would have been so good with a younger man.
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The first time I got outside I almost cried because it felt so good .
great
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The migration is so great that the countryside looks almost emptied.
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Their bomb load was so great and dangerous that the slightest error would have been suicidal.
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Never before has the attraction of a career in golf been so great .
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Her Wells routine is so great .
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The rights assigned to the empire by these jurists were so great that many cities refused to acknowledge them.
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The differences between the East and West are not so great now.
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The problem was so great , it dragged him asleep.
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But Janice's fear was so great she struggled through two more migraines before screwing up enough courage to try the injection.
hard
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If only the bar wasn't brought down quite so hard on everyone's head.
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In patients who have fought so hard and been through so much, I sometimes say they just lost their reserve.
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He struck me hard , very hard, so hard that I still feel it, across the face.
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There are six other members of the team who have worked so hard to get to this moment.
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He hauled the front door open so hard that when it hit the stop the stained-glass panel shattered.
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I almost lost it-I almost lost control of the business I had worked so hard to build.
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If your voice wasn't so hard and loud and ugly.
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They could have been even shorter, except encouraging signs have been so hard to come by for the Warriors this preseason.
long
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But he took so long to make his point, the Speaker intervened.
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The punditocracy in our country has been so one-sided for so long that we hardly notice the routine tilt anymore.
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Chapman had at last got the player he had wanted for so long .
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No country should be so long without one.
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As far as she knew, Griselda had never been away so long before.
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The subject never developed much traction so long as it was a rhetorical rather than legislative goal.
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Why has it taken so long to find a buyer?
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Inexperience with people was probably the reason it took Jennifer so long to catch on.
low
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Probably because even she had not expected him to sink so low .
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Or did the threshold of success have to be put so low that it represented something self-defeating?
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Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare.
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His chin was down so low it seemed about to touch it.
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Since they were erupted so low down, it was not long before the rivers of lava were flowing through inhabited areas.
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His voice was so low that it tickled my tailbone.
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But that's all changed now, the credibility of dotcoms is so low among investors that companies are shedding the suffix.
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The savings rate is so low and the money available to create jobs is not there.
small
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Dances were absolute torture, because I was so small and because my hands sweated a lot.
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The railing is wobbly, the space is so small that it is suitable only for one person.
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It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden, and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads.
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Mrs Stowe was a woman so small that her growth seemed to have been arrested in childhood.
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We concluded that as Molly was so small , nobody had noticed her.
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Billie was so small in his arms, his heart broke for her smallness.
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Everything looked so small , almost mean, in the tiny front living room.
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And all the Fisherexaggerated traits remain in lekking species as well because the cost of choosing is so small .
■ VERB
become
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Perhaps he didn't understand why I'd become so angry and distant.
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In 1955 it became so dangerous it had to be dynamited.
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He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand.
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The cold in the building became so intense that he awoke one morning with feet and hands that were purplish and numb.
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I was becoming so tense that my head, neck and even my eyes were always so painful.
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If you are not Webwise, we suggest you take active steps to become so .
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The assault on the bus is all the more terrifying, because it has become so commonplace.
do
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He only do so much amount of work and that was it.
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Others noted the armed forces could have said publicly they were backing the elected president but declined to do so .
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As they do so , be sure they notice the weights on the crane which balance the heavy loads.
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Established wings struggled to do so , and failures were not uncommon.
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To do so is very costly.
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He had earlier pledged he would not do so .
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To do so , however, we had to be examined by the board of deacons.
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This is not to say that our soldiers, sailors and airmen have not comported themselves bravely when asked to do so .
feel
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And he had felt so light, so sure-footed, so approved, so anchored.
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The first time I got outside I almost cried because it felt so good.
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I felt so nearly in complete control.
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It felt so ... Something for you?
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So long, too, since Masakayan was made to feel so out of shape.
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Can't you see how I'd feel so degraded?
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I had not felt so nice since I was twelve.
happen
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Your mind and body feel great sensations and it happens so quickly.
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The president has rightly said that the bill will likely die if delayed, as has happened so often in the past.
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Perhaps if it hadn't happened so handily by chance, he would have engineered a meeting.
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But so happen , one little boy not so good.
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So much had happened so fast, and the man she loved was so far away.
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But it just so happened that Trondur said no.
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She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned.
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It so happens that I have all those breeds.
hope
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I've heard they are quite beautiful, and I hope so .
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Well, I hope so , and not just because my own wardrobe is decidedly denim dominated.
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I hope so , because residential homes are places where people become cut off from family life and the outside world.
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I hope so , but...
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It was what they had expected of University, but had not hoped so soon to find.
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He did so hope I was not bored with country life.
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I hope so , and if I can contribute something to that culture change I shall be glad to do so.
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Perhaps he'd even hoped so , poor chap.
look
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We must have looked so gormless; we certainly looked it in our passport photos.
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It makes her look so pitiful.
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She uses lightener to keep her hair looking so fabulous and natural looking.
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Never had the old pigman looked so fancy.
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Never had any man so looked down his nose at her.
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So many of the men looked so young to be traveling that road to perdition.
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Potter is staring because Keith looks so dishevelled, as if he hadn't slept or even combed his hair.
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But don't look so worried, lass.
seem
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It seems so right somehow, as if it's my duty.
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She was so far from home, and she seemed so isolated.
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He seemed so attentive, so clued in to my every word, that I suddenly found the confidence to go on.
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It was a genuinely selfless act, which I recount only because at the time it seemed so incredible.
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Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women, which had seemed so mysteriously random at first.
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It is the inexorable quality of differentness which seems so evil here.
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Ten years ago now yet seeming so much more.
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It seemed so unlike his own withdrawn, tentative inclusion in the life around him.
think
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For my part I very much think so .
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Do you all think so much of that?
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No, well, I don't think so .
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Female speaker Maybe somebody might spot me, but I don't think so .
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Female speaker I don't think so .
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The citizens of some post-communist countries have reason to think so .
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Startling the commuter is a game in which it is best to think so .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(and) deservedly so
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It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
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Nandina is long favored, and deservedly so.
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The move up to verse can be ineffective, deservedly so.
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The next day, the press criticism was withering, deservedly so.
I don't feel too hot/so hot/very hot
I guess so/not
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"She wasn't happy?" "I guess not."
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Dope, is it? I guess so.
I hope so
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"So you're going to the Amazon?" "I hope so."
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I thought so. I hoped so.
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Right. I hope so, yeah.
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Was it worth it? I hope so.
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Will he get the chance to step up? I hope so.
I should hope so (too)
I told you so
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I could never work with a man like that and I told him so.
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I didn't like his mood. I told her so, but she just laughed.
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I was not disappointed. I told myself so, firmly, several times.
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I wouldn't have blamed him if he'd walked away and I told him so.
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There; I told you so.
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To sum up: I told you so.
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True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta - for I told him so.
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What matters is that we lived like writers, and that I told them so.
I/you should be so lucky!
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Sleep past 6 a.m.? I should be so lucky !
and rightly so
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We were blamed, and rightly so, for this mess.
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For the most part, criteria of critical reasoning are internal to disciplines or professional fields, and rightly so.
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It will undoubtedly be one for public debate, and rightly so.
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Many organizations see this as a blind leap of faith, and rightly so.
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Such an arrangement would probably be considered out of the question today, and rightly so.
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Symphony No. 88 has always been a favourite and rightly so, as well as the Oxford, helped by its nickname.
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The Bolshevik reputation stood high, and rightly so, for at least they acknowledged the question and officially embraced national independence.
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The reaction to arguments from silence is usually noisy vituperation, and rightly so.
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The White House would not put the president in that position again and rightly so.
and so forth
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The study included women of different ages, races and so forth .
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And she thought, oh, maybe she was just overtired, and so forth .
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By uh by listing factors and so forth .
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He must choose a diet, exercise, relaxation, and so forth .
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Motion precedes quiescence, which in turn precedes motion, which in turn precedes quiescence, and so forth .
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Please would we list our safety equipment, the radio, the distress beacon, and so forth ?
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Satan has sovereignties and powers and so forth working for him as well.
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Try Yahoo listings of organizations and so forth , and Google for mentions on Web pages.
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You browse the Web daily for ideas and download interesting articles from newspapers, magazines and so forth .
as it happens/it just so happens
as/so far as I know/I can remember/I can tell/I can see etc
as/so far as I'm concerned
as/so far as sth is concerned
as/so long as
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As long as you're just sitting there, come help me with the groceries.
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Pam stayed awake as long as she could.
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You can go as long as you're home for dinner.
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At the least, officials said, the move will postpone implementation of the program for as long as six months.
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Fortunately Scott was reasonably obedient as long as some one kept a close watch over him.
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His fame will remain undiminished as long as the game of cricket is played.
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It's quite possible you won't even realise this, so long as you each mirror the same changes.
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It is not a wasted experience as long as it can be purged of negative overtones.
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This is three times as long as the Canon's heads, so I haven't included replacements in the page costs.
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Wet wood can recover as long as it dries out relatively quickly.
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Why did they not know that as long as they did not speak, he was all right?
even so
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She had only seen Matthew Godden once before, but even so she recognized him instantly.
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The fines for speeding are large, but even so, they are not always a deterrent.
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Try to run on a soft surface, such as grass. Even so, you may start having knee problems.
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And yet even so, holy and awesome though they were, they kept the mark of what they had sprung from.
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But even so, the original pledge was to get 24 countries into the programme, not 20.
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Some people may remain well but even so they are able to infect others.
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The lesson: it is, even so, never too late to act.
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The people could not have been more charming but even so I sensed an undercurrent of suspicion.
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The trumpets shall sound and the Lord shall descend even so it is.
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This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
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Yet even so, the United States still leads most industrialized countries in teenage pregnancies, abortions and childbearing.
ever so cold/wet/nice etc
every so often
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Every so often we go down to the beach.
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Every so often , Frank looked up at me and smiled.
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The silence was broken every so often by the sound of guns in the distance.
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And every so often a transvestite would swagger past, some more obvious than others.
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I come and visit him every so often .
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I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
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It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often .
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It will do that every so often on your birthday.
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The every so often it was mopped, the every so often sprayed.
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They talked in a close huddle and every so often would both turn round and look at me.
go so far/as far as to do sth
how so?
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"The scriptures make it perfectly clear." "Oh, how so?"
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Have you noticed how so many adverts for chocolate are aimed at girls?
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He does not entirely explain how so many people could lift off so quickly into the deal-making stratosphere.
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I do not understand how so many Black men stay sane, look after their children and strive to walk beside them.
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I repeated the details of how so many of Green's family had been murdered at Auschwitz.
if I may be so bold
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And what, if I may be so bold , is the meaning of this note?
if I may say so
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And his manner was, if I may say so, more relaxed, almost like an aristocrat.
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And if I may say so, they seem more useful than yours.
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For my interior vision, if I may say so, it still works.
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Now, you're a plants-woman of no small renown, if I may say so, your ladyship.
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Suicidal, if I may say so.
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Unlike, if I may say so, the dabblings of your brother in the theology of physics.
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Very sexist of you to assume otherwise, if I may say so.
if you don't mind my saying so/if you don't mind me asking
in so far as/insofar as/in as far as
in so many words
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"Did he say we got the contract?" "Not in so many words ."
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In so many words , she told me that I don't have any talent.
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Although it has not said so in so many words , it is also for the supranational space.
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And, if taxed by such as Sylvester, he probably would not now admit it in so many words .
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But I also knew that if I admitted to that in so many words , Janir would start fussing.
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It hurts to write that out in so many words , but how could it be otherwise.
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Oh, not in so many words , of course.
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There is, in fact, considerable nervousness about saying these things in so many words .
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To be fair, the majority report does not in so many words advance the argument.
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Zuwaya had a deterrent theory of peace, and stated it in so many words .
just so
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Her house always has to be just so.
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Because is just so expensive and you know, food attracts residents.
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Did you write to me just so I could agree with you?
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He presses just so hard, no harder.
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It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald's kingdom.
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Life can last just so long, you understand.
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Tamayo swears he comes in at 8 a. m. every day just so he can work out.
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There were just so many animals around.
like this/that/so
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Aye, some boys will be like that.
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But it was not always like this.
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Geniculate, at first glimpse, is something like that.
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He was an associate of Neuhaus, and like that legendary figure imparted the richest sense of cultural and human ideals.
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How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this.
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It goes like this: 1.
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Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before, and she didn't like it.
make/be so bold (as to do sth)
never so much as
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I do everything for him, and he's never so much as made me a cup of coffee.
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Clarisa had never so much as dusted his butt with baby powder.
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He never so much as twitched.
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Naturally he had never so much as whispered this phrase to a living soul.
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Tesla was told firmly that he must never so much as mention the subject of alternating current.
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They passed a hundred yards away and never so much as changed course to take a closer look.
not half as/so good/interesting etc (as sb/sth)
not so fast
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Not so fast ! You'll scrape the paint!
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Not so fast , guys. One win doesn't make a championship season.
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Both were expanding their departments as well, though not so fast as Ranieri.
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But not so fast , or so the town of Oro Valley decided August 30.
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It's also big, but not so fast or user-friendly despite its curious system of organizing bits into folders.
not so much ... as ...
not too/so bad
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The roads weren't too bad .
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At first, things were not so bad .
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Compared to how I feel, how I look is not so bad .
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She began to think that perhaps village life was not so bad .
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The Ky is not too bad .
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The policing here is not so bad .
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The Vatican, I must say, is not too bad when it is full and the resonance is reduced.
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The weather was not too bad .
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We played really well and while the other contenders still had to play each other, our run-in was not too bad .
not/without so much as sth
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I never received so much as a reply.
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The car survived the accident without so much as a dent.
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He had never had a day of sickness, not so much as a cold.
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How could we have put their bag into ours without so much as a single check?
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I, who had traveled all that long day on that train without so much as a cheese in my pocket?
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It is a matter of tone, not so much as content.
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So far in Rajasthan, I had not so much as nodded to another female.
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That he had dumped her without a word, without so much as a goodbye.
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We got our six appearances, and not so much as one drop-by or mix-and-mingle extra.
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When they go straight to bed without so much as ordering a toasted sandwich or spending money at the bar.
quite/quite so
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At Carville, things were not quite so stark.
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In fact, my recent diet hadn't been quite so reckless.
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It's not quite so good the second time around, never mind the fourth or fifth.
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It was all right walking in the mountains but not quite so safe-looking to drive.
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Mental programming, of course, does not have to be quite so extreme.
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No hotel service could be quite so crass.
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The people might be made to kneel, but the elements were not quite so easy to muzzle.
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The voices of the neighborhood teenagers are not quite so shrill.
sb is (so) up himself/herself etc
sink so low
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How could he have sunk so low?
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Because she had never sunk so low, and never would.
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Don't let yourself sink so low again - come and talk to me or to the doctor.
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Few bands sink so low, few soar this high.
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Probably because even she had not expected him to sink so low.
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She had not sunk so low as to join the ranks of that sisterhood!
so far
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I think he's done a great job so far .
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There haven't been any problems so far .
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This is the hottest day we've had so far this summer.
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We've raised twelve thousand dollars so far , and we expect to reach our goal by the end of next week.
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And so far Conservative strategy has been anything but effective.
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Because he was so far ahead in his first year, he spent his time on other things.
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However, the military were not having much success so far .
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On the other hand, the technology plainly is not ready; so far , the tests have been embarrassing.
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Our final rehearsal before Farnham, however, delivered the cruellest blow so far .
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Selman has sold off two-thirds of his herd so far .
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The treatment so far had been innocuous: quinine pills and injections of alum water.
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There were times that Iverson was so far down the court that Mutombo didn't make it to halfcourt.
so far so good
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"How's your new job?" "So far so good."
so help me (God)
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A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.
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But, so help me ... I have done nothing!
so long
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"So long ,'' he said. "Don't forget to write.''
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She grabbed Nick by the shoulders and hugged him affectionately. "So long , Nick.''
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All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly.
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As we look at this reply, it is clear why psychotherapy often takes so long .
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Dunn's mouth was open so long that it dried inside and he could not swallow or salivate.
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Just so long as there are decent shows either side of it.
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The reality was long ago - oh so long ago!
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They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed.
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Things were going on for so long that I thought he would stay here and things would be settled.
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To wait so long for a clean cup of water was beyond me.
so much for sth
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So much for 3.75% Profit Share figures and so much for staff motivation.
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Thank you so much for coming.
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Thank you so much for your encouragement in the past.
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That diagnosis is not so much for therapeutic reasons as for administrative and management purposes.
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The boys have been lovely and Kenneth has done so much for me.
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The method she resorted to was novel, not so much for the times but for her.
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Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese.
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We take the railways so much for granted.
so much the better
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If it makes illegal drug use even more difficult, so much the better .
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You can use dried parsley, but if you have fresh, so much the better .
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And if I am Peter, so much the better .
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And if that can change things, so much the better Female speaker He's the little man having a kick.
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But if I can manage with fewer trips to the store, so much the better .
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If love eventually grows, so much the better .
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If they are alive so much the better , but they can be persuaded to take dead ones.
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If they can fit in with the room's general style, so much the better .
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If we can improve the team another way, so much the better .
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So a single fluorescent tube will be adequate, and if you have used floating plants, so much the better .
so near and yet so far
so there!
so to speak
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We have to pull down the barriers, so to speak , of poverty.
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Being in charge of a lethal weapon, so to speak .
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Denver had come around, so to speak .
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He could get caught up in the story, so to speak , and little by little begin to forget himself.
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Other than that, the world was my artistic oyster, so to speak .
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The babies, so to speak , are helplessly powerful.
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The whole of life, so to speak , is involved in the pursuit of the good life.
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These constitute, so to speak , the raw materials for effective education perse.
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To get back to business, so to speak .
so what?
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"Don't go in there, he's sleeping." "So what ?"
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After all, Twickenham only holds 65,000 people, so what about the other fans throughout the country?
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And so what , she thought, so what?
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And the special language of the specialist is a substitute for thought. So what are we to do?
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Part of the fun includes a trip to make-up. So what does the future hold for Fiona and David?
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She might think he was a little coarse doing that after saying he despised her, but so what ?
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We are behind in the opinion polls. So what ?
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You climbed Mount Everest? So what ?
so/as far as I am aware
very much so
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It was like Hi De Hi backstage, very much so.
without so much as a by your leave
would you be kind enough to do sth/be so kind as to do sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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So this one's the original, and this one's the copy, right?
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So , Lisa, how's the new job going?
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Dave felt comfortable at Mandy's, even more so than in his own home.
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I felt so sick yesterday.
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I never knew Rob could sing so well.
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If you have not sent in your payment yet, please do so immediately.
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It's too bad that so many kids come from broken homes these days.
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It all happened so fast.
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Oh, he must be about so tall.
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Orange is just so not the right color for Kari.
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Thank you so much!
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That puppy is so cute!
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The dresses were lovely, and the colours were so pretty.
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What's so bad about getting a B in math?
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You've been so kind. I hope I can repay you some day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you were not always so committed to this constitutional process.
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Finally, there is the secrecy and confidentiality which is so typical of public bureaucracies.
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How had it gotten so black out?
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I start out slowly so I can take everything in.
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Not so , it was suggested.
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Something about his smarmy attitude makes me want to shake him so hard his collarbone breaks.
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The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly.
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With so many organizational changes, it is understandable that they are having problems.
II. conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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So anyway, we decided to go to the mall.
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I got hungry, so I made a sandwich.