Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ever so sorry not to see you but he wished you a merry Christmas . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am so sorry not to have made an appointment . ’ |
| 3 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 4 | Habibi 's confidence was restored , yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it ! |
| 5 | It would be so easy just to give up for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose it seems like that , but it would have been silly to say no when he was prepared to come , after I 'd been so sad not to see him . |
| 7 | I mean that 's so stupid not to send it back . |
| 8 | Within a minute of coming on , substitute Tony O'Donovan put Didcot right back in to the game and then Paul Spittle was so unlucky not to level the scores as his shot hit the post . |
| 9 | Well he 's so busy about to do it and getting himself ready to do it , that he is gon na do it though |
| 10 | Why was it so difficult not to smile back ? |
| 11 | It is so difficult not to make it sound so appallingly emotional . |
| 12 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 13 | But it 's so lovely just to have . |