Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | They were so marvellous those nurses , some of them so young and all so dedicated . |
| 3 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 6 | So why am I so lucky and I got you as well ? |
| 7 | It was he who arranged medical care , arranged the hospital — even arranged for an adoption ; but once I 'd had the baby , and she so soft and little , so lovely , I could n't do it . |
| 8 | ‘ Why was she so snooty and superior ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I mean — with you so weak and vague … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've loved you so much and for so long ! ’ |
| 11 | You so quiet and good , you too deceive me . |
| 12 | ‘ You should be ashamed to believe that , ’ said Fergus , ‘ and you so wise and clever about every other thing , my dear . ’ |
| 13 | Was it going to be the You Are Cold and Unfeeling Row , the Why Are You So Feeble Row , the Fat Row , the Racist Row , the Right-Wing how , the Left-Wing Row , the Merits of Jane Austen Row , the Driving Row , the Looking After Maisie Row or the Why Are You so Bitter and Twisted Row . |
| 14 | I 'm glad to see you so happy and bright . |
| 15 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 16 | Her beautiful mother who missed her so much and sent her all her love . |
| 17 | I miss her so much and she hardly ever writes to me . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 19 | I find her so sweet and I ca n't bear it that she 's blind . |
| 20 | It is also true that to wrestle with his thought demands a rethinking of the Gospel : that his students found him so witty and stimulating a teacher is understandable . |
| 21 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 22 | His family had protected him when he was a child and youth , and the search for another such secure haven was one of the dominant notes of his life : both in its denial during his marriage to Vivien which rendered him so anxious and insecure , and in its triumphant restitution at the end of his life . |
| 23 | Cor but he got him so riled and you know . |
| 24 | She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down . |
| 25 | I am stunned to find him so fine and ruddy in the startling , bleak white of this room ; so handsome in the face of my decay , my washed-out skin and faded eyes , my smears of blood and perspiration . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a delight to see him so fit and healthy . ’ |
| 27 | I know this is really putting on you , but … well , I would appreciate it so much and will recompense you in any way I can . ’ |
| 28 | I 've thought about it so much and I feel it must and can be something wonderful for all of us . |
| 29 | and we enjoyed it so much and it was only ten pound for ten days , |
| 30 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |