Example sentences of "[pers pn] be so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am so closely blocked up by an army of Misfortunes , ’ he told Mary Evans in one of his increasingly fond letters , ‘ that really there is no passage left open for Mirth or any thing else . ’ |
| 2 | And I know what I am , but what I am so closely resembles somebody else that at times it even scares me ! |
| 3 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 4 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I — I know it 's silly Aunt Emily , but I 'm — I 'm so little used to late nights that I do feel absurdly tired . |
| 6 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 7 | But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again . |
| 8 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |
| 9 | ‘ As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted , you 're intelligent as well as beautiful . |
| 10 | You are so incredibly screwed up and lonely that you feel the need to scapegoat and stereotype your neighbours . |
| 11 | How come you are so easily spared from the company which employs you ? ’ |
| 12 | In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax ! |
| 13 | ‘ The thing about you , Helen , if I may say so , is that you are so refreshingly detached from all that one finds disagreeable about contemporary life . ’ |
| 14 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 15 | You 're so well known for the ES295 Gibson guitar that it became dubbed the ‘ Scotty Moore ’ model , but you did n't use that guitar all the time , did you ? |
| 16 | Since you 're so well organised I 'm happy to leave the matter in your hands . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean that you could probably spend the rest of your life doing nothing more taxing than the sunbathing you were so clearly enjoying today . ’ |
| 18 | So how come you were so well informed , unless you 'd been primed by Lotta in the role of confederate ? ’ |
| 19 | You wo n't touch me , you have n't done a thing for this goddam exhibition you were so all fired up about , and it 's OK ? |
| 20 | You were so much loved by us all , |
| 21 | I did , however , manage to express my views as a practitioner , as one who actually nurses in the system of which she is so poorly informed , and I suggest that if more of us did the same , then perhaps our collective expertise may have a greater influence . |
| 22 | What if that forceful identity for which she is so severely castigated somewhere also operates as a kind of pull ? |
| 23 | Her voice sounded drugged and heavy from the feelings she was so desperately trying to bring under control . |
| 24 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 25 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 26 | She was so badly injured that she was able only to tell them her name . |
| 27 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 28 | She was so badly burned she had to be identified by a palm print left at home . |
| 29 | She was so badly burned that surgeons had to amputate her left hand . |
| 30 | But the chances are that even if all the paintings were traced , the Philippine Government would never recoup even a fraction of the money spent on them , because she was so regularly duped . |