Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same |
| 2 | Little kids eat you alive , they want so much physically and emotionally . ’ |
| 3 | Its linear diameter is I 392 000 km ; it looks so small only because it is at a distance of nearly 150 million km from us . |
| 4 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 5 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 6 | Why should Willi always make himself look so ludicrous so that people laughed at him ? |
| 7 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 8 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 9 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 10 | The thing I was getting so pissed off cos I 've run it about ten times now , cos you keep coming and do alterations ! |
| 11 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 13 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |
| 15 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 16 | It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy . |
| 17 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 18 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |
| 19 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 20 | Her rats-tail hair did n't seem so bad suddenly and in the firelight she was quite pretty . |
| 21 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |