Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 2 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 3 | On these points we are left in no doubt : he found mainly ruins , and what was not ruined , was in his eyes so corrupt that it needed a completely new start . |
| 4 | Her great wings were lank and dull , her eyes barely open , and her talons so weak that it was possible to bend them back and forth unresisted . |
| 5 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 6 | A jerking pop star was wielding his guitar as the credits rolled , his parodic sexual gyrations so grotesque that it was difficult to see that even the besotted young could find them erotic . |
| 7 | She glanced up at the blackened night sky , pin-pointed with stars so wondrous that it made her feel like crying , and wished she were home , warm and safe in bed . |
| 8 | At one moment we shall be talking in terms of billions of years and billions of light years ; at the next we shall focus on events that are of importance for only billionths of a second involving particles so small that it is misleading to think of them as material objects . |
| 9 | Is it really the case that ordinary mem bers of the public have a hatred of the police so virulent that it completely overbears normal reactions of shock , concern , and compassion ? |
| 10 | But Britain , like the other European powers , found US tariffs so high that it was impossible to repay in goods . |