Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 2 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 3 | There is no point in serving food which is good for kids but tastes so revolting that they wo n't eat it . ’ |
| 4 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |
| 5 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 6 | It all looks so simple when you see the advertisement but could you have thought of it ? |
| 7 | I often find myself wondering how something that looks so simple and straightforward manages to cause its owner so many headaches . |
| 8 | ‘ Richard looks so proud and handsome , ’ she related , and when it was said , it came from the heart , because it was what Tilly herself saw , the man whom Elizabeth had never stopped loving , and the man who had captured her own heart . |
| 9 | He looks so good when he 's going forward like this lays it off for Crosby and clearance is lacked away by Simon Greyson . |
| 10 | For a man who always looks so morose when batting — ‘ I know I look a miserable sod out there , but I ca n't help it , ’ he once said — and whose captaincy had previously seemed rather ordinary , it was a revelation . |
| 11 | If I stand up to her , she looks so sad and that makes me feel wicked . |
| 12 | She looks so thin and tired my heart aches for her . |
| 13 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 14 | It looks so bad when the number one player in the world is not playing Davis Cup . |
| 15 | This is the case with a trio of quite astounding stereoscopic exhibits : a Muppet show in which cartoon characters practically curl up in one 's lap ; the Hitchcock exhibit in which the birds of The Birds take flight from the screen into the auditorium ; and in EPCOT , Coppola 's weird short film Captain Eo , with Michael Jackson and Anjelica Huston , where Jackson 's nose job looks so rubbery and three-dimensional one feels that , if one pressed it , it would pop inside out . |
| 16 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 17 | She looks so silly and so beautiful , he thought ; not surprising that she gets the money on . |
| 18 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 19 | and how the future looks so bleak and grim |
| 20 | Other people found his looks so engaging that it is sad to think that he was deeply conscious of noses , especially when he was worried about Jewishness . |
| 21 | looks so matted and knotted up , you ca n't ever imagine him being |
| 22 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 23 | it 's back again to the old fashioned set , I mean I think nothing looks so untidy as to joined writing |
| 24 | He looks so miserable that for once I do n't kick Heather on the way back to my desk . |
| 25 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 26 | Medical friends have told us that one very eminent medical researcher grows so enthusiastic when he shows colour slides of stools excreted by rural Africans that comments like ‘ look — are n't they beautiful ’ fly from his lips during his lecture . |
| 27 | Computer print-outs so big and heavy they 'd wrenched the bin off its lamp-post . |
| 28 | ‘ My older son would like to make friends , too — he gets so bored and he is a bit jealous of the baby . |
| 29 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 30 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |