Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did not pretend it would be easy , ’ Mrs Browning murmured , ‘ which is why you are recompensed so handsomely , Wilson . ’ |
| 2 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 3 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 4 | She 's slept so well for two nights , even though she 's sleeping on the floor of the hospital . |
| 5 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 6 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 7 | She was dressed so smartly I thought : ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves St Laurent . |
| 8 | She was held so tightly now that she could not struggle . |
| 9 | ‘ Just like old times , ai n't it , before you was took so poorly , ’ said Gloria . |
| 10 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 11 | Why had they been killed so barbarously and so mysteriously ? |
| 12 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 13 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 14 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 15 | ‘ Or because they 're built so close to the ground . ’ |
| 16 | Need they be rotated so rapidly ? |
| 17 | ‘ They were separated , but they were separated so fully and so completely , and so soon after their birth , that the threat withdrew . ’ |
| 18 | Since they were erupted so low down , it was not long before the rivers of lava were flowing through inhabited areas . |
| 19 | Only his eyes were small , and they were set so deeply in their orbits that you could not tell what colour they were . |
| 20 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 21 | It is especially easy to see out of and manoeuvre in tight spots , which is why , apart fro anything else , you see so many of them being driven so aggressively in heavy traffic . |
| 22 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 23 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 24 | She 's upset it 's 'appened so soon , ’ Carrie went on . |
| 25 | The only real surprise about Danny Rampling 's fine debut single ‘ I Hate Hate ’ is that it 's taken so long for a DJ of his reputation to commit himself to vinyl . |
| 26 | In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious . |
| 27 | It begins auspiciously with Purcell 's sacred aria The Blessed Virgin 's Expostulation , not available elsewhere , but back again at last and doubly valuable because it is handled so beautifully . |
| 28 | If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently . |
| 29 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 30 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |