Example sentences of "his [noun] be so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas his beard was so clearly a compensation , a making up for unachieved virility , Gyggle 's beard was positively rampant , priapic . |
| 2 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 3 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 4 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 5 | ‘ In general , I think it 's slightly unfair when you 've got someone who 's considered a virtuoso player such as Mark King — he 's obviously very talented , but his basses are so incredibly easy to play that it seems a bit of a cheat to me . |
| 6 | His body was so badly burned that his features were unrecognisable . |
| 7 | The plot is the most extravagantly and sentimentally romantic it would be possible to imagine , the story of brave , generous , broken-hearted Cyrano , who loves but can never win the girl because his nose is so grotesquely large . |
| 8 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 9 | And if Fosdyke had been popular , it 's strange that his funeral was so poorly attended . |
| 10 | However this seems only appropriate for the central figure , especially since his name is so strikingly left uncategorised . |
| 11 | Mr Harding says his clocks are so well made that even those great timepiece makers the Swiss import them . |
| 12 | His ways are so far beyond our ways . |
| 13 | The headmaster seemed sincere enough , but his manner was so perfectly poised between gravity and teasing that Robert 's discomfort increased . |
| 14 | Partly because , it seems to me , his life is so much more important to him than his work , and he has seen the dreadful consequences of the solitary confinement some writers and artists consider the sine qua non of their trade . |
| 15 | The major decisions and judgements he makes in regard to his life are so strongly influenced by his foreign language background , interests and values , that he is known as a linguist , a language teacher , or a diplomat . |
| 16 | His voice was so unexpectedly kind that Sally-Anne 's anger drained away . |
| 17 | His surroundings were so suddenly and so totally novel . |
| 18 | She said she had no idea his leg was so badly diseased . |
| 19 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 20 | His answer was so far from the murmuring of her own mind that she could not comprehend what he was saying . |
| 21 | Perhaps this is why his films and his personality are so emphatically of today . |
| 22 | He thinks his country is so highly developed ! |
| 23 | But it was an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century employers that wages must be kept as low as possible , though intelligent entrepreneurs with international experience , like Thomas Brassey , the railway builder , were beginning to point out that the labour of the well-paid British workman was in fact cheaper than that of the abysmally paid coolie , because his productivity was so much higher . |