Example sentences of "be so [adj] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable .
2 ‘ Well , I do n't know what you 're so surprised about , Robert .
3 She says that there are many rare species and whilst the damage on the sea surface is very visible , e.g. dead birds , it wo n't be so visible down below , where the real damage will be done .
4 He had to be brilliant , she thought , to be so well up in his profession at his age .
5 Thank you for my dinner , I 'm So full up
6 That 's what I 'm so worried about . "
7 ‘ They sure need to be good boys , being so hard up .
8 ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up .
9 , by the time I get my Best is so late on in the , in the sort of time , see I wo n't get that one until Sunday .
10 Liz is said to have commented : ‘ I 'm sorry Raquel is so hard up she has to do a film that rips off my life .
11 A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers .
12 It 's so cheap up there .
13 and plenty of drink cos the drink 's so cheap out there
14 And I enjoy it , it 's so peaceful down there .
15 That 's why it 's very very hard to get rid of the guns in America , cos there 's so many about .
16 Just the same as , see there 's so many out of work the amount of people that are going for the jobs , there 's so many of them they erm they 're all got some sort of experience , even if it 's just doing a a week .
17 I think what 's happened the moon is is either set already or it 's so low down in the sky we ca n't see it because the buildings and things are in the way .
18 You can never see , it 's so dark out here you ca n't see
19 Gosh it 's so cold out there !
20 But it 's so cold out there .
21 Well he 's so busy about to do it and getting himself ready to do it , that he is gon na do it though
22 So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there .
23 They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los
24 ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’
25 Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie .
26 ‘ I was so nervous out there .
27 But it was so late on .
28 It was so peaceful out here in contrast , and so redolent of nature 's life .
29 Everyone was so tired out that we were all falling asleep on the way home .
30 ‘ It was so windy out there . ’
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