Example sentences of "[pron] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 3 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been with me so long that I forget it 's there , but it can be a bit off-putting to strangers . ’ |
| 5 | Does she think me so stupid that I do n't know they do that ? |
| 6 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 7 | This seemed to me so true that I could n't imagine why it was not universally acknowledged . |
| 8 | An and it 's what makes me so cross as I walk past that blinking school every day and you think my kid should be over there ! |
| 9 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 10 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 11 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 12 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 13 | ‘ All these chores are making me so hungry that it is , as I said before , only fair that you feed me properly in order to keep me going . ’ |
| 14 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 15 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 16 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 17 | Nothing so absolute as sex . |
| 18 | No , nothing so useful or interesting is ever included . |
| 19 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 20 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |
| 21 | Well that 's nothing so bad because this is what you 're trained for but |
| 22 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 23 | Nothing so dramatic as Nora Fanshawe had suggested need have happened . |
| 24 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 25 | They were so marvellous those nurses , some of them so young and all so dedicated . |
| 26 | The present squeeze on resources of all kinds in CMEA economies has made them so taut that the short-term consequences of market-orientated measures ( inflation , unemployment ) are bound to be sharp and widespread . |
| 27 | They 're not to me because you can have them so long while I think oh not even in the fridge am I keeping this any longer , you know . |
| 28 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 29 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 30 | Within days Hadley Cantril and a team of psychologists from Princeton University were interviewing listeners to see just what had made them so convinced and , in many cases , so panic stricken . |