Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 2 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 3 | But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room . |
| 4 | Odd how I pinned so much on getting her into bed , and when I did , after we did … |
| 5 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 6 | There 's I mean so many of them have caught on . |
| 7 | Sometimes , they even used to laugh at me because I got so serious about athletics . |
| 8 | ‘ I got so used to winning them . ’ |
| 9 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 10 | ‘ I got so angry at being accused of something I had n't done that I made it happen . ’ |
| 11 | I was gon na but I , I thought , I thought if sees me when I come in , cos I had make up all down my face cos I 'd been so upset , I got so angry with the whole thing |
| 12 | After six weeks I got so worried about her , I changed to bottle-feeding , and she gained weight like there was no tomorrow . |
| 13 | I got so sick of looking at that . |
| 14 | I grow so many of my plants , including trees and shrubs , from seed . |
| 15 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 16 | But many more I found so general in their sentiments as to be , for me , almost meaningless . |
| 17 | This oath of secrecy I found so oppressive at first that I felt like the barber in the Greek myth who had to dig a hole in the ground and whisper , ‘ Midas has asses ' ears ! ’ |
| 18 | I 'm a 19-year-old Scottish university student- But why am I becoming so interested in the Personal columns ? |
| 19 | I want so much for you , and you want nothing for yourselves . ’ |
| 20 | He is one of the shrewdest coaches around and I learnt so much during my year there . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I learnt so much from my childhood . ’ |
| 22 | I learnt so much from Mr Reynolds . |
| 23 | And why do I feel so uncomfortable in talking about such a natural , beautiful thing to my own parents , to the lovers I owe my existence to ? |
| 24 | ‘ I read so much at work that when I get home I just want to watch Jeremy Beadle ! ’ |
| 25 | The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move . |
| 26 | I lie so close to the earth that I am part of it and so it is mine . |
| 27 | ‘ I owe so much to Monsieur Félix . |
| 28 | She says I owe so much to my staff for all the work they 've put in to getting this place going again . |
| 29 | I 've always been intrigued by the Catholic church , by all the colours and the candles , but I know so little about it … when we studied existentialism in high school , I felt that that was exactly right , but now I just do n't know … |
| 30 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |