Example sentences of "be so [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I am so cooped up . |
| 2 | I am so pissed off with being told how men own and control the world . |
| 3 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , she said he needs some new pyjamas — his old ones are so worn through they 're hardly decent — so I went out and bought him a pair . ’ |
| 6 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 7 | For the really determined walker there are two Government-run hotels or pousadas in the mountains , which are so isolated there is nothing to do each day but hit the trail . |
| 8 | ‘ Though the mechanics of it are so arranged so that on every odd hour the water plays and the fountain dances in snatches of classical music . ’ |
| 9 | We are so looking forward to meeting you and do hope you can come . |
| 10 | If Leeds are so shite why does he still go to Elland Rd to watch on his days off I wonder ? ? |
| 11 | When they are so realized then the attitude-holder may draw upon , and develop , these implicit argumentative aspects of belief . |
| 12 | Words such as ’ normal ’ and ’ roles ’ are so weighed down with morally conservative pressures no responsible film-maker should let them be thrown in so lightly and without challenge . |
| 13 | They turn up to work but are so stressed out they ca n't perform , there 's no added value to the product . |
| 14 | A bat is a machine , whose internal electronics are so wired up that its wing muscles cause it to home in on insects , as an unconscious guided missile homes in on an aeroplane . |
| 15 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 16 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 17 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 18 | You are so wrapped up in yourself . |
| 19 | The interviewer will expect you to be slightly nervous , indeed may be rather alienated if you are so laid back that you appear almost indifferent . |
| 20 | It is the loss of tangible , lively faith in the home that exaggerates the external , rationalistic and professionalized expressions of religion that are so deadening today . |
| 21 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 22 | Well , it means quite a lot for the people who are living in Germany , especially the ones who are living in the East , because their economy has been so run down , it 's got to be put through a sort of shock treatment . |
| 23 | I did n't know , thought it had been so built up . |
| 24 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 25 | If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river . |
| 26 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 27 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 28 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 29 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 30 | Seldom has a team been so fired up prior to a major match , due largely to the pompous comments of Tipperary manager Babs Keating , who should have known better . |