Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the TV advert in which John Lee seems to be endorsing ICI ( who pump out a disgraceful amount of CFCs into the atmosphere ) is n't so terrific either . |
| 32 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 33 | No it is communication that tells us that it is so awful now . |
| 34 | That 's why it looks so awful down there . |
| 35 | ‘ You looked so awful earlier , so gaunt and haunted . |
| 36 | He wo n't be so shy there . |
| 37 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 38 | He was ever so sorry not to see you but he wished you a merry Christmas . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I am so sorry not to have made an appointment . ’ |
| 40 | So sorry just a moment . |
| 41 | That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick . |
| 42 | Carrie lingered , partly because she felt so sorry suddenly , and partly because she felt guilty . |
| 43 | [ to PAMELA , who is holding back slightly ] Why so strange here , Pamela , where you were once so familiar ? |
| 44 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
| 45 | I 'd never seen him so strange before . ’ |
| 46 | After a while she said , ‘ I do n't know why I feel so strange sometimes . |
| 47 | Sad to see a skilled worker being offered so little yet amused that people like me on Employment Action and Employment Training only receive 20p per hour after deductions for travel costs . |
| 48 | ‘ I am your lover 's wife , ’ she said , and then I was glad I had so little on . |
| 49 | I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else . |
| 50 | I like all these noncommittal grey frontages , some unobtrusively elegant , some cautiously flamboyant , that give so little away about the thought that teems behind them . |
| 51 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 52 | With a budget like that , it 's not surprising that so little ever gets done ‘ on the ground ’ ) . |
| 53 | Mahon came from a region they knew so little about . |
| 54 | I 'm fed up with you being so loud tonight , now quieten down and get on with it . |
| 55 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 56 | I mean Paul was one of his friends he never had that many so that probably means he finds it hard to make friends , you can tell |
| 57 | I 've never heard you say anything so definite before ! ’ |
| 58 | Many brands will perish or never be so profitable again |
| 59 | When costs are so profitable why would they need full-time employees , they can just have us stood at the door any d any g at the gate any week they want , begging for a day 's work . |
| 60 | We 're so weak physically , so helpless with things . |