Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Dot so lovely as you might thick , whed there 's dobody to play od theb ! ’ |
2 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
3 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
4 | A thousand thousand ways we 'll find To entertain the hours ; No two shall e'er be known so kind , No life so blest as ours . |
5 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
6 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |