Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 2 | ‘ It ill becomes one so young and beautiful to be gloomy and despondent . |
| 3 | An and it 's what makes me so cross as I walk past that blinking school every day and you think my kid should be over there ! |
| 4 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 5 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other . |
| 7 | I understand — the actor talks to a non-existent character , or even a dog , on the stage , and he makes it so real that the audience sees it , you actually see Gabriel . |
| 8 | It takes death and makes it so beautiful that dervishes hasten to it ; it takes tears and makes of them a substance more precious than pearls . |
| 9 | Let's have a look at that white sheet first erm , quoits are done , I 'll do the pools after those shot , javelin , discus , low on darts , they 've ticked these so I hope to God they 're right well that Justin 'll do anything to be perfectly honest er I wish she , it makes it so difficult when you ca n't trust people . |
| 10 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |
| 11 | But in any case , what — other than the dictionary itself — makes us so sure that words ‘ have ’ basic meanings that apply in every context ? |
| 12 | For clearly , they can not have non-restrictive relative counterparts.3 But what makes us so sure that it is an example of apposition ? |