Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |
| 3 | Both of them loved women and in that love as in every emotion they were inarticulate , yet in no impulse of the heart were they so tongue-tied as in this great and pure friendship of theirs . |
| 4 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't keep it so hot as they keep theirs . |
| 6 | The court was adamant in its rejection of fanciful interpretations of the clause so as to make it so wide as to be unreasonable . |
| 7 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 8 | It is the essential inner spirit of the earth here — immemorial and profoundly mystical — and nowhere is it so potent as upon the edges of these curious chalk pits . |
| 9 | Or , if there were , they were playing it so cool as to be almost unnoticeable . |
| 10 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 11 | But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it . |
| 12 | But because this left it so generalised as to sometimes appear to be saying hardly anything at all , it was open to imperialist take-over by more established , but much more mechanistic learning theories such as behaviourism . |