Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made them so unpopular that they are n't even commemorated in a country name . |
| 2 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 3 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
| 4 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 5 | Does she think me so stupid that I do n't know they do that ? |
| 6 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 7 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 8 | And I say something so idiotic and stupid like that again I 'll fucking all round this house ! ! |
| 9 | I am stunned to find him so fine and ruddy in the startling , bleak white of this room ; so handsome in the face of my decay , my washed-out skin and faded eyes , my smears of blood and perspiration . |
| 10 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 11 | It is also true that to wrestle with his thought demands a rethinking of the Gospel : that his students found him so witty and stimulating a teacher is understandable . |
| 12 | I 'm surprised to find it so quiet and peaceful , ’ Julie said as Laura sat down on the bench once more . |
| 13 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 14 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 15 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
| 16 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 17 | Just why she found it so disturbing that Luke was planning to fly her she was n't quite sure . |
| 18 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 19 | And yet in these , he made himself so ridiculous as to become an entertainment . |
| 20 | As for ( b ) , by supporting Iraq in the Gulf war Mr Arafat made himself so unpopular that most Arab governments no longer want him to be involved . |
| 21 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 22 | Within days Hadley Cantril and a team of psychologists from Princeton University were interviewing listeners to see just what had made them so convinced and , in many cases , so panic stricken . |
| 23 | The present squeeze on resources of all kinds in CMEA economies has made them so taut that the short-term consequences of market-orientated measures ( inflation , unemployment ) are bound to be sharp and widespread . |
| 24 | The staff listed consists only of the chancellor , one of the greatest of the royal officers , whose wages were five shillings a day , the master of the writing-office , who originally had tenpence a day , but Robert de Sigillo had made himself so indispensable that he had risen into the two shilling class , and the chaplain in charge of the chapel and relics . |
| 25 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 26 | He did wish that custom and her total generosity had not made everything so easy as to be negligible . |
| 27 | They 'd have been able to certify him insane , or he 'd have done something so terrible and criminal they could have put him in prison , where he 'd be sodomised and knifed ; quietly disposed of without any fuss because the rules were different in there . |
| 28 | The coat had made her so hot that she was sweating heavily . |
| 29 | Robert said that ill-feeling between him and his brother had made him so annoyed that he had used a large knife to slash a rubber dinghy which they owned jointly . |
| 30 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |