Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is n't so friendly out here , ’ said the first soldier with a shiver . |
| 2 | A serious concern of the author 's is that governments ' commitment to education , so strong up to the mid-1970s , has waned . |
| 3 | I think what 's happened the moon is is either set already or it 's so low down in the sky we ca n't see it because the buildings and things are in the way . |
| 4 | He must , he must get so pissed off with that must n't he ? |
| 5 | The thing I was getting so pissed off cos I 've run it about ten times now , cos you keep coming and do alterations ! |
| 6 | That 's why it looks so awful down there . |
| 7 | ‘ I am your lover 's wife , ’ she said , and then I was glad I had so little on . |
| 8 | Mahon came from a region they knew so little about . |
| 9 | It was so high up , it whined like a fly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 14 | So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there . |
| 15 | Very good It 's ever so damp out , is n't it , look |
| 16 | than here because it 's erm so damp down here is n't it , near the river ? |
| 17 | ‘ It was so windy out there . ’ |
| 18 | There was just so much around . |
| 19 | ‘ And here 's some extra to get your car cleaned after I 've dripped so much on to it . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think people buy it so much on have you seen , they 're going to give you a weeks ' television |
| 21 | Well I 'd like to see it Jonathan but I do n't I had so much on at |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I erm If i try not to give way , it leaves so much up here |
| 24 | ‘ You 're just making that up , the way you make so much up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 27 | The passion that I have foolishly boasted so much about . |
| 28 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 29 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 30 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |