Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 2 | ‘ I am so closely blocked up by an army of Misfortunes , ’ he told Mary Evans in one of his increasingly fond letters , ‘ that really there is no passage left open for Mirth or any thing else . ’ |
| 3 | And I know what I am , but what I am so closely resembles somebody else that at times it even scares me ! |
| 4 | I am so particularly pleased with these , that I should feel much gratified by possessing a duplicate copy of each . |
| 5 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 6 | ‘ I am so terribly sorry . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am so very pleased , sir . |
| 8 | By the way , I am so very pleased that you are still giving patterns in your magazine for the ordinary standard punchcard knitting machine and not giving way entirely to the electronic . |
| 9 | I am so very glad to have one of his lovely paintings and feel proud to have worked with such a gifted man . |
| 10 | I am so very sorry . |
| 11 | ‘ Si , signore , I am so very sorry . ’ |
| 12 | I am so very very glad to have had that opportunity to help both Brian and SUSIE when they stayed that month with me — and only wish I saw more of her . |
| 13 | ‘ Charles , I am so very grateful . ’ |
| 14 | I am so very glad to hear that my darlings are all making such splendid improvement . |
| 15 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 16 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 17 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Maggie , I 'm so awfully sorry to hear your news , ’ he said , taking her hands in his and squeezing them . |
| 19 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm so utterly sorry I got you involved . |
| 21 | Cor I 'm so fucking poor |
| 22 | I 'd flog my necklace first I 'm so fucking skint |
| 23 | ‘ I — I know it 's silly Aunt Emily , but I 'm — I 'm so little used to late nights that I do feel absurdly tired . |
| 24 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 25 | I 'm so far from everything . |
| 26 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so very sorry , Brenda , ’ said the Brownie Guider . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm so very sorry , Ho . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm so very sorry , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ Vi , I 'm so very sorry . |