Example sentences of "[pron] [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 2 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 3 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 4 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 5 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 6 | " Oh , kind sir , " Gabriel besought him , " I am so tired and hungry from travelling through the forest . |
| 7 | After the hearing he said : ‘ I am so pleased that my character and reputation has been cleared . |
| 8 | I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior ! |
| 9 | I believe they represent the very best of the BBC 's tradition in journalism and I am so pleased that you have chosen to honour them . |
| 10 | ‘ I am so pleased when you do as I ask . ’ |
| 11 | I am so convinced that this is a fact I often only half-fill the ‘ feeder so that I can cast more often and take advantage of the extra number of casts and splashes and those thirty-second deadly periods . |
| 12 | ‘ I am so disappointed because I had the chance . |
| 13 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 14 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ James , ’ she said in a flat voice , ‘ I am so glad that you have come . ’ |
| 16 | " Indeed I am so glad that if there are sometimes cockroaches in the food here , you have your wife and child at home . " |
| 17 | I am so glad that you came north over Easter , and I hope it wo n't be too long before we can get to know each other a little better . |
| 18 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 19 | ‘ I am so busy that my brain is in a complete jumble . |
| 20 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 21 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 22 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 23 | ‘ Would I be so foolish as to blaspheme ? |
| 24 | I 'm so stupid that I started doing cocaine to try to understand him — to get close to him and understand where he was coming from . |
| 25 | Nobody wo n't come and see me cos I 'm so stupid and I always make mistakes . |
| 26 | ‘ When I 'm so cheap and nasty ? ’ she jeered , a soft acknowledgement of the contempt with which he was regarding her . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so sorry that you had to wait , Signorina Hastings . |
| 28 | But it 's the way she 's saying oh I 'm so sorry but I have to go back on it when she 's agreed to something . |
| 29 | I 'm so sorry if I 'm disturbing you . |
| 30 | He just walked straight past me , oh well I 'm so sorry and he goes what 's wrong with you anyway lately ? |