Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this anger , more or less contained , which speaks through the extraordinary images created by Heartfield in his life-long struggle against fascism and for Communism , and renders them so memorable . |
| 2 | I despised myself anyway , haunted by things as superficial as a way of moving , a combination of colour and shape , an asymmetrical smile , the chance attributes of someone who holds herself so cheap she 'll squander herself on a man as truly valueless as Florian Jones , and ignore both his marriage and his other affairs . |
| 3 | That holds him so steady in his wounds , so loyal to his doom , so patient |
| 4 | Writing on behalf of News Group Newspapers Ltd , he denied that either the Sun or the News of the World ‘ has anything so grand as a ‘ marketing strategy ’ — whatever that is ’ . |
| 5 | It does not matter why the news reaches him so late . |
| 6 | It takes me so long ! |
| 7 | Well seven nines , well ee er , it takes you so long |
| 8 | I mean you 've got , it takes you so long to place things and |
| 9 | Summers is assiduous in research , but less interested in politics ; there are sides of Hoover 's story whose ordinariness he misses because he finds them so shocking . |
| 10 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 11 | On the other hand the modern world , which finds it so difficult to deal with evil , nearly always treats the Devil as a figure of fun if it rejects the monster personification . |
| 12 | In our depth interviews , for example ( Appendix II , section 5 ) , there was the man in trouble with the court already who could therefore not get HP — and who bought the settee he wanted with a trading check instead ( even costlier to repay ) , though he doubted his ability to pay it off and was still making payments through the court ; and the woman with so many debts to pay off , afraid of the ‘ loan man 's ’ visit because she finds it so hard to say no to his offers . |
| 13 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 14 | It pumps me so full of adrenalin that I pace in and out of duty-free shops , toilets , coffee shops , anything . |
| 15 | ‘ It ill becomes one so young and beautiful to be gloomy and despondent . |
| 16 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 17 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 18 | That 's about ten pounds for every one of the wrinkles that makes them so distinctive . |
| 19 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 20 | It 's a fast-paced , illuminating and frequently hilarious show , but the portrait is left incomplete by the short shrift given to film of Fishbone onstage — surely the one place where their controlled chaos makes perfect sense — and a surprising lack of emphasis on the political apoplexy that makes them so fascinating . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Everything that Clegg and Gatsby do is devoted to their loved ones , this is the whole focus of their lives , which is what makes them so dangerous . |
| 23 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 24 | Study of evolving populations of ammonoids has produced very fine subdivisions of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks , and their only disadvantage , curiously enough , is the feature that makes them so attractive to collectors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mother says it 's the good fresh air on the moor that makes them so hungry . |
| 27 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 28 | So now I go out and shoot Lou full of holes and when the law wants to know what makes me so excitable I tell them Mr. Bonanza said Lou shot Mahoney . |
| 29 | I 've seen how Dickie 's pals look when taking the eleven plus , and it makes me so mad , Jo ! |
| 30 | It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’ |