Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm so sorry to put you to all this trouble . ’ |
| 2 | Just so easy to do it to you now . |
| 3 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 4 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 5 | Just as we came into Stranraer Gardens , Mrs Quigley said , ‘ We have worked so hard to bring you to the Lord , Simon ! |
| 6 | ‘ I have never been so glad to see anyone in my life , ’ I said , ‘ nor so surprised . ’ |
| 7 | I would make amends if they would contact me , and would be so glad to invite them to my home , to meet my wife and children . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm so glad to have you as a son , John . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm so glad to have you with me , ’ smiled the lad . |
| 10 | They do n't find it so comfortable to forget you with a nice headstone . ’ |
| 11 | But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly . |
| 12 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 13 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 14 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 15 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 16 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Why does everybody tell me I ought to watch my drinking when they 're all so busy watching it for me ? |
| 18 | Relaxing a little , she told herself that having discovered the identity of R , it was not so essential to grill him after all ; but on the other hand , there was still the matter of the concealed photograph to be explained . |
| 19 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 20 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 21 | ‘ We are so pleased to welcome you to our home . ’ |
| 22 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 23 | And I do n't understand why she was so slow to alert us to those symptoms today . ’ |
| 24 | Similarly , it is because of the prevailing values of our society that it is so difficult to implement what at least to economists appear to be technically feasible solutions to our problems . |
| 25 | It was , it seems , to prevent this ‘ premature interest ’ that the family , and its moralists , were so anxious to concern themselves with sexual manifestations . |
| 26 | Duke of Monmouth , following in Oh So Risky 's footsteps , won last year 's Triumph Hurdle and will get the strongly-run race and fast ground so necessary to see him at his best . |
| 27 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 28 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 29 | They were no longer so ready to see themselves as isolated settlements on the sea coast , unrelated to each other and uninterested in the interior . |