Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to his dressing room and slammed the door behind me so hard the mirror broke . |
| 2 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 3 | But because he read them so often the Bookman had a little problem . |
| 4 | You 'll open those jaws of yours so wide the hinges will snap at the corners . ’ |
| 5 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 6 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 7 | Ma had held her so tight the buttons of her dress had pressed into Anna 's chest until they hurt . |
| 8 | I knew her so short a time . ’ |
| 9 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 10 | did it so well the other Friday when in the |
| 11 | They make a couple of mistakes , the most regrettable being an abominable version of ‘ Ghost Town ’ , but get it so right the rest of the time it 's easy to forgive them . |
| 12 | I thought that this morning when I saw you again , and I want you to know I do n't think we should leave it so long the next time . ’ |
| 13 | We wo n't leave it so long the next time |
| 14 | These are directed to control conflict — though in fact they make it so much a part of the formal structure of the organisation that they tend to legitimise and even perpetuate it . |
| 15 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 16 | Well apparently he 's sold it so maybe the ne . |
| 17 | She was holding it so tight the hook was embedded in her flesh . |
| 18 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |