Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched .
2 But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more .
3 As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face .
4 Joe Haines , from his vantage point as Harold Wilson 's press secretary , reckoned that so strong and so determined was their resolve to make the country a member that no government , regardless of party , could have resisted it indefinitely .
5 Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ?
6 Who would be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? — ’
7 ‘ Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs ? ’
8 But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the .
9 I 've never really analysed why I was so angry and so shocked and so hurt .
10 ‘ So strong and so powerful and so vulnerable .
11 But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South .
12 Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians .
13 And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task .
14 But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door .
15 ’ There was a long sigh and then a sobbing , and so desolate and so hopeless was the sound that the three listening minds were splintered with anguish .
16 Packed to the doors , service was of the wham bang variety but so honest and so good .
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