Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 2 | ‘ I am so happy you like it here , child . ’ |
| 3 | if their answers are so private they do |
| 4 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 5 | Crewe wo n't be rushing him but we 're told that Liverpool are so impressed they 've asked for first option on him . |
| 6 | Many retired people expect to slow down , expect their health to deteriorate ; in fact , their expectations are so low they do little to make their lives full and interesting . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes you are so nice I do not want to kill you , Mr Wilson ! ’ he said . |
| 8 | I had another l pipe , piece of water pipe , which I used as a balancing device , but I found , with the watering pipe you are so stable you feel it 's a shame to be seen holding on . |
| 9 | Because the insulating characteristics of timber-frame houses are so good they do give rise to the problem known as ‘ interstitial condensation ’ , as was revealed in the television documentary . |
| 10 | It is said that Peru has some of the best liars in the world — I could n't know , they are so good I believe them ! |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to take them off ; but those shoes are so good I want you to put them back on again . ’ |
| 12 | I think it 's because the passages are so small they get bunged up , I know Anna across the road 's got it done once but er Michelle said they 've come out , but er , they 're supposed to drain them so she said |
| 13 | The Whitehall-propagated view is that the changes in Eastern Europe are so momentous they render European Monetary Union , a common fiscal policy and the charter obsolete . |
| 14 | The authorities there are so obsessed they 've already got toilet detectives ready to pounce on and arrest anyone who does n't treat public conveniences with respect . |
| 15 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 16 | Christ , the people in this dump are so small-minded they treat the folk from the village down the hill as a bunch of aliens . |
| 17 | I hope we develop those that are so interesting you do n't want to put it down . ’ |
| 18 | These ideas , familiar to all good teachers of English , are so important they bear constant repetition . |
| 19 | The eyes of a small nocturnal primate , the tarsier , are so enormous they fill most of its head . |
| 20 | CONTESTANTS on TV 's Bullseye are so thick they do n't have IQs they have Low Qs . |
| 21 | They are so basic they seem obvious , yet it 's amazing how often they are broken or ignored . |
| 22 | His office is in London 's Mayfair district , where the cars are so big they take up two parking lots . |
| 23 | Members are so angry they throw out chairman Tom Walkinshaw . |
| 24 | ‘ Some three and four year olds ' teeth are so bad they have to be given a general anaesthetic to have six or more teeth pulled out . |
| 25 | In 1988 , Ruth Barclay teamed up with her niece , Sherrie Bodie , to open Barclay & Bodie which has been so successful they 've taken over the shop next door . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been so long I 've forgotten what 's it like , but this game gives me the chance to change that . |
| 27 | However , it is axiomatic that if such successful strategies have been so developed they have not been published and therefore can not be commented upon here or in any other similar text . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , we 'd been so public I suppose everyone thought they had a right to make it their business , and what 's more according to us they did . ’ |
| 29 | I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it . |
| 30 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |