Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its nodes are all like WISARD 's RAM chips , but the interconnections between them are arranged so that the nodes are in a layered partial order , not necessarily a tree . |
| 2 | Particular example , remember this is all confidential I I 'm told so er er it wo n't go any further than this room . |
| 3 | I 'm told so . ’ |
| 4 | er she 'd came home , she said I 'm not dancing no more I 'm finished so we said alright fair enough , she 's joining er trying for the police she comes on holiday with us in the October , she come home September , come on holiday with me in October she met this young fellow , she got engaged at Christmas and they 're getting married they , they |
| 5 | ‘ But this is television , that 's why I 'm paid so much , to come up with solutions , ’ he proffered . |
| 6 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 7 | And literally , I got , but I was got so little on I felt that if I did n't do some extra |
| 8 | Someone else might realize : ‘ I dream and idealize a lot , because I was left so much to my own company . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We did not pretend it would be easy , ’ Mrs Browning murmured , ‘ which is why you are recompensed so handsomely , Wilson . ’ |
| 10 | It is equally sensible for you , too , to be in membership of a trade union representing you on the appropriate negotiating body , and you are encouraged so to do . |
| 11 | They say yes you 're allowed so much money to have your house fixed and they fix it . |
| 12 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 13 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 14 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 15 | You were allowed so few clothes that it was nice to be able to wear something different . |
| 16 | She 's done so much for us already . ’ |
| 17 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 18 | She 's tried so hard to refuse payment from her aunties for the day 's outing , but has succeeded only in deflecting each one 's departing offer of a clandestine , crumpled tip . |
| 19 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 20 | She 's slept so well for two nights , even though she 's sleeping on the floor of the hospital . |
| 21 | It 's lucky she 's stationed so close . |
| 22 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 23 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 24 | She was dressed so smartly I thought : ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves St Laurent . |
| 25 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 26 | She was held so tightly now that she could not struggle . |
| 27 | If the guess was wrong then she was told so and asked to guess again . |
| 28 | She changed in the lorry with Martina , a sorrel mare with four white socks , who was never let out until the last moment , as she was driven so crazy by the flies . |
| 29 | ‘ Just like old times , ai n't it , before you was took so poorly , ’ said Gloria . |
| 30 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |