Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] so [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 2 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
| 3 | VISITING LADY : [ to PAMELA ] Well , as he now urges you in so gentlemanly a manner for tomorrow , I think if I was in your place I would agree to it . |
| 4 | ‘ For myself , I can scarce believe it is true — that I am to accompany you on so grand a venture . ’ |
| 5 | Over the next ten acres , it seems to have made an immense fall , covering them with so vast a bed of stones , that no human art can ever again restore the soil . ’ |
| 6 | How dare you speak to me in so insolent a fashion ? ’ she growled , almost choking with rage . |
| 7 | It was uncommon in those days , and still is , for publishers to commission artists of such quality to illustrate cookery books , and a little of the success of Boulestin 's early books must be acknowledged to his publishers who , no doubt under the guidance of their author , produced them in so appropriate a form , in large type , on thick paper : chunky , easy little books to handle , attractively bound . |
| 8 | One must hope that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role next week , but meanwhile the company is to be congratulated on replacing him with so sterling a performance by this seasoned professional . |
| 9 | Who was he , this dark and secret lover who had inflamed her with so great a passion ? |
| 10 | ‘ Was it worth so great a violation to do me such a little hurt ? ’ |
| 11 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |