Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |
| 2 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 3 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 4 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 5 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 6 | He did n't tell me but became so agitated and excited , he left the book open with faint drops of candle grease on it . |
| 7 | The Thames in London became so opaque and smelly as to be a national scandal , especially when in 1849 and then in 1854 John Snow showed the statistical connection between drinking dirty water and catching cholera . |
| 8 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 9 | Its presence in everyday life became so large and so intense , and in such a short space of time — say 20 years from the Coronation in 1953 , acknowledged as the ‘ take-off date — that its influence is strictly incalculable , over other media and over most facets of life . |
| 10 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 11 | She had never flown so fast and with such ease before . |
| 12 | The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible . |
| 13 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 14 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 15 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 16 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't have my hair done , and it got so thin and straggly at the back . ’ |
| 18 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 19 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 20 | If we allow multi-media to remain so shapeless and subjective , how can we ever hope to understand its implications for the information industry and the generations of information users who may ( or may not ) benefit from it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Their lines were formed so thick and deep , ’ observed one eyewitness in Cumberland 's army , ‘ that the grapeshot made open lanes quite through them , the men dropping down by wholesale . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps it is not surprising , because those demands change so much and so often . |
| 23 | Third , the plight of the business may be so grave , and the selection of the individuals concerned so inevitable and so urgently required , that consultation would make absolutely no difference to the outcome . |
| 24 | It had taken her months to get used to eating so late and so many times a day . |
| 25 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 26 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
| 27 | Cos I ca n't shut up they make me laugh so hard and Harry Enfield Only me ! |
| 28 | I could do it , yeah , cos like my first night I did n't realise I was coughing so much but erm , her mum heard me , she said in the morning but |
| 29 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 30 | It must be a tribute to the resilience of these people that they lived so long and survived through it all . |