Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Lo and behold , when I got to court , this old lady was there and I felt so ashamed and so sorry for her .
2 I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ .
3 Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended .
4 She looks so silly and so beautiful , he thought ; not surprising that she gets the money on .
5 Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children .
6 In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’
7 I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them .
8 To see you go so pale and still ?
9 Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket .
10 This man who somehow made her feel so good and yet so bad , all at the same time .
11 I saw a group last year that had a re-release go top ten ; they appeared on Top Of The Pops and they looked so old and so wrong .
12 It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be
13 ‘ I could n't have my hair done , and it got so thin and straggly at the back . ’
14 Erm , he is erm regarded as in terms of erm , he tried so hard and just
15 Hari tried to conceal her surprise , she had believed the man to be a famous actor , he seemed so colourful and too theatrical to simply be a businessman .
16 It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole .
17 It changes so fast and here 's we have a job to keep up with it .
18 He saw so much and so keenly , his vision enhanced by his occulobe .
19 It looked so green and hard .
20 In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt .
21 It felt so safe and so right , and at the same time so electric , stirring her in ways that were becoming increasingly familiar , and increasingly delightful .
22 Hypnosis is rather like the former situation ; you are aware of all that is happening but , because it feels so right and so pleasant , you allow it to happen .
23 Ferdinando had aged , too , was no longer as vigorous nor did he walk so tall and straight .
24 He was so young some nights , I mean he looked so young and so quiet , and I was scared for him you see , so scared that he 'd get it wrong , that he 'd waste himself .
25 Cos it sounded so stiff and so er
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