Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 2 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 3 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 5 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 6 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 8 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 9 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 10 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 11 | The Free Curl cordless styling Brush , Free Curl cordless styling Tong and Free Curl cordless combination Brush and Tong have been designed specifically for women on the move which makes them so easy to travel with . |
| 12 | It is that tender , chiding , mutual affection which makes these beautifully translated letters between them so agreeable to read . |
| 13 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 14 | And you can even buy imitations of handmade bricks with all the individuality of texture that makes them so attractive to use , but they are pricy . |
| 15 | Never was I so glad to see anyone as I was to welcome the return of Gordon Hilker and Yehudi Menuhin later that evening after the concert . |
| 16 | " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ? |
| 17 | ‘ Are you so anxious to see him ? ’ |
| 18 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out , one at a time ? |
| 19 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 20 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 21 | I mean you 've got , it takes you so long to place things and |
| 22 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 23 | ‘ When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence . |
| 24 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 25 | And , her tone suddenly changing completely , ‘ Would it really hurt you so much to pretend to be me for an hour ? ’ she asked mournfully . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ Why are you so keen to convince me ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why are you so keen to work on this program ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why are you so keen to find out ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then why are you so reluctant to repeat the experience ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Then why are you so reluctant to admit who you 're meeting ? ’ |