Example sentences of "so [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 2 | She used not to be so censorious of others ' behaviour but her own betrayal had , she thought , seared her more than she understood . |
| 3 | The councils have ‘ tackled a great variety of jobs : commenting on local plans , clearing up their area , dealing with traffic problems , organising carol services and other social events , protesting about bus routes and becoming involved in the many other neighbourhood activities so typical of residents ' groups and parish pump politics ’ ( Boaden et al . |
| 4 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 5 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |