Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [conj] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 2 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 3 | Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down . |
| 4 | The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned . |
| 5 | It was noted of Henry I of Germany that he was merry in his cups , but never to the detriment of royal dignity ; and of William I of England that he was so abstemious that he never took more than three cups of wine after dinner . |
| 6 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 7 | he he was so good that he never annoyed anybody by silly remarks . |
| 8 | He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’ |
| 9 | At that the king 's son was so sorry that he nearly died himself . |
| 10 | Mickey was so delighted that he promptly scored a hat trick in his side 's 4–1 win . |
| 11 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 12 | Mr Knight was so upset that he immediately resigned his seats on Essex County , Tendring District and Harwich Town councils . |
| 13 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 14 | The picture of her in his head was so clear that he actually smiled . |
| 15 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 16 | Sean was so astonished that he almost swallowed the paten as well as the host and Paddy , his face bright red as his hair , hurriedly passed on to the next communicant . |
| 17 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |