Example sentences of "so lucky as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be so lucky as to get that close . |
| 2 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 3 | One is not normally so lucky as to be able to link a coinage so specifically to a historical event or particular date and usually more indirect methods must be used . |
| 4 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 5 | The railway lines define the neighbourhood all right : Railway Hotel on the corner that the Council 's started using for temporary accommodation for other single mothers not so lucky as she , as the social worker kept telling her ; Railway Cafe opposite the launderette with coloured transfers on the window and a goldfish tank next to the curry puffs and ketchup bottles . |
| 6 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 7 | Some said there would be no more than a brief lull to refurbish and reprovision , and then another attempt ; others maintained that the troops would be paid off — if they were so lucky as to be paid ! — and disbanded from Shrewsbury , for it was too late in the year now to favour an invasion . |
| 8 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |