Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , well er well it is , because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job do n't they ? |
| 2 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I tried so hard to make her see how … unsuitable that man is . |
| 4 | Perhaps she will read this book and at last understand what I tried so hard to tell to her . |
| 5 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose so many have been up here since Mowbray 's fall , I doubt we will find anything . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I feel so guilty lying around out here in the Caribbean , while you 're ill , and Charles and Dad are worried out of their minds ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But Dad , I feel so ashamed to think that Mr and Mrs Lewis will 'ave ter mix with our kind of neighbours , and you know what Mum 's like when she 's 'ad a few drinks . ’ |
| 9 | I felt so dizzy looking up that I fell over . |
| 10 | I felt so privileged to see the semi-fractured religious edifice so beautifully linked together with sand blasted glass and aluminium supports . |
| 11 | As I do so I gaze at Kyle ( or Gedge , or Henning ) on the other side of the airwell . |
| 12 | Only trouble was I had so much to do ; I never even had a chance to snorkel . |
| 13 | I did not take too much notice of them , Paul and I had so much to share . |
| 14 | I had so little to offer , nothing to turn to account . |
| 15 | In a number from Funny Girl , Barbra Streisand sings ‘ As Camille I just feel , I 've so much to offer . |
| 16 | ‘ I have so much to say that I can not tell you half in a letter . |
| 17 | Well , I 'm sure that there will be some folks at the lecture that will raise those questions , I , I have so much to say and I 've been making notes . |
| 18 | I must n't die , when I have so much to live for ! |
| 19 | ‘ I have to be quite hard on her sometimes because I have so much to sort out I ca n't let myself become depressed about it too . |
| 20 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 21 | I wanted so much to go into the house and be with them , but I knew I must stay in the hut . |
| 22 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 23 | She tried so hard to help him , to talk with him and show him how much she cared … how much they all cared . |
| 24 | Shelley was unwilling to be alone with Miguel , in case his gentle conversation got through to her , and uncovered her sensitivity that she tried so hard to hide . |
| 25 | Jenny grinned , that wide , slightly toothy grin which she tried so hard to avoid , and which filled her whole face with an animation and glow that turned Antony 's heart upside down . |
| 26 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
| 27 | Is that the real reason you tried so hard to keep us apart ? ’ he barked the questions at her in a harsh undertone . |
| 28 | Dot knew that she had everything she used so much to long for . |
| 29 | ‘ You seemed so eager to get rid of me . |
| 30 | Now we shall have to use that telephone system that you seem so anxious to sabotage . " |