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

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1 Prior Robert was still so blind that he almost stumbled on the steps , but recovered himself with aristocratic dignity and by the time he reached the tiles of the floor was his complacent official self again .
2 fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more
3 Was his vanity really so overpowering that he actually believed she gave a damn about him anyway ?
4 Are you really so hungry that you just have to nip into that fastfood burger joint ?
5 Her desperation was now so great that she momentarily forgot his wound , striking out at him blindly .
6 On structural grounds alone , a new building was needed as it was now so weak that it probably would not be able to withstand building operations being carried out on the surrounding land .
7 This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined .
8 These rocks , called dacites , are often so viscous that they scarcely flow at all , and merely heave themselves sluggishly to the surface to form an irregularly flat-topped mound over the vent .
9 Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors .
10 The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies .
11 However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) .
12 Things are never so bad when you just let go .
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