Example sentences of "so [adj] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | A serious concern of the author 's is that governments ' commitment to education , so strong up to the mid-1970s , has waned . |
| 2 | It was so high up , it whined like a fly . |
| 3 | I just wonder whether erm I think that stool there might have been better to have her sitting on that one , not quite so high up and she could have adopted a more comfortable pose and she would n't have needed another prop for her foot . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 5 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 6 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 7 | I erm If i try not to give way , it leaves so much up here |
| 8 | ‘ You 're just making that up , the way you make so much up . |
| 9 | Well they tie so much up today , you see , where years ago they 'd keep cutting from it , you see , and people were n't so particular , they 'd take the lump as it was . |
| 10 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 12 | Liz is said to have commented : ‘ I 'm sorry Raquel is so hard up she has to do a film that rips off my life . |
| 13 | ‘ They sure need to be good boys , being so hard up . |
| 14 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 15 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 16 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |
| 17 | ‘ Export is a nightmare because of the paperwork and expense of transporting the pottery , but we 've never had it so good up here and Easter Ross is really no further from Tokyo than London . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose you can get can you get so many up you can in a lot of places ca n't you ? |
| 19 | He had to be brilliant , she thought , to be so well up in his profession at his age . |
| 20 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 21 | Thank you for my dinner , I 'm So full up |
| 22 | ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’ |
| 23 | You know the pushchair 's sort of so small up to her . |
| 24 | Off the lead and it was er , so boisterous up and down like this , well he did n't like it straight away he got the old aggro blade up his back about two inches wide |
| 25 | West 45th Street , in Manhattan , said he had not seen so many people intent on a show since the Mets had played the Houston Astros in the sixth game of the playoff for the National League pennant , and even then they had not stood so close up to the screen . |
| 26 | It 's so cheap up there . |