Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
2 | I 'm so depressed and often cry myself to sleep . |
3 | I 've never really analysed why I was so angry and so shocked and so hurt . |
4 | you ca n't say what you want to say because you are so nervous and so on ! |
5 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
6 | You 're so young and so very innocent — so completely untouched . |
7 | I mean you hardly show , but I could n't help seeing , you 're so slight- and well , I had three myself , and I 've seen my daughters through it . |
8 | It is her whole situation — she is so mournful and silently accusing and sometimes , Robert , I think her as mad as Landor with all this nonsense she makes of the Bible from time to time . |
9 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
10 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
11 | ‘ She was so determined and so curious about things . |
12 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
13 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
14 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
15 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
16 | When I had them first I thought I 'm never going to use them you know they 're so clumsy and they 're so big and now I rather enjoy them . |
17 | It 's so tiring and hard on the nerves . |
18 | It 's so straight and so sharp that it works perfectly as a blade , but when you 've finished you can just grind it up into the ground . ’ |
19 | I think the stage door club is fine but it 's so tiny and rather you know . |
20 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
21 | It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated . |
22 | When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it . |
23 | It is so nice and easy these days to give an injection , knowing that the beast will be sound in a day or two . |
24 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
25 | And of course we 've always had closed circuit television at the underground car park in Gloucester Green , and I had it from the words of another Conservative Councillor , Councillor Ann Spokes , that she always uses Gloucester Green car park because it is so safe and so secure . |
26 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
27 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
28 | ‘ He is so small and so dependent on us , we must do something to save him , ’ said Jason , 20 , from Flixton , Manchester . |
29 | The Wisharts resumed their reading , Mrs Wishart kept glancing at the old lady — she could n't help admiring her dress , it was so Victorian and really out of place in 1945 . |
30 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |