Example sentences of "make [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 2 | And when her maids had got her dressed and done her hair and she had breakfasted by her tall windows overlooking her manicured rose-garden and a green , daisy-starred meadow , she had nothing to alarm her throughout the day but the possibility of a visit from the formidable Mrs Covington-Pym or the awkwardness , as she took her carriage-exercise , of encountering the wife of her dear friend Mr Adolphus Moon who had made himself so very agreeable . |
| 3 | Well , where have you been that 's made you so late ? |
| 4 | And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ? |
| 5 | This book is in general good , but a chapter on foregrounding would have made it so much better . |
| 6 | I have n't made it so far , look at me , I 'm living in luxury I am , I 've got lots of money to spend |
| 7 | ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking . |
| 8 | What made you so suddenly doubt me ? ’ |
| 9 | These new terminals make everything so much tidier . |
| 10 | He 's an Italian , fond of the opera , and for the woman 's part , she 'd make herself so blatantly available to him … |
| 11 | She almost wanted to cry , he made her so intensely aware , showed her what ecstasies there might be in store … |
| 12 | Rachel had always enjoyed being a woman , and delighted in her femininity , her sex appeal , the differences that made her so intensely female . |
| 13 | Ruth wondered if she was gazing at the dark whiskers which sprouted on her chin and made her so appropriately , though unfortunately , named . |
| 14 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |
| 15 | If he was insatiable he made her so too , and light was filtering through the shutters before , utterly exhausted , she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 16 | Lexandro waited patiently within the suit which made him so much more awesome a giant while armiger techs and biomedics , uttering incantations , completed their checks on the trio of warriors in a ribvaulted barbican giving access to the practice deck . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards him in her , because it made him so very human , this man of whom she had once been so deeply in awe and whose power over her still unnerved her when she reflected on the realities of their relationship . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't make it so hard — please , Luke ! ’ |
| 19 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 20 | And if you accept that , why does a baby make it so much worse ? |
| 21 | It made it so much cheaper , worthless even . |
| 22 | That 's what made it so hard . |
| 23 | I do n't feel whole , and labels just make it so much more difficult for me to understand myself . |
| 24 | These are directed to control conflict — though in fact they make it so much a part of the formal structure of the organisation that they tend to legitimise and even perpetuate it . |
| 25 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 26 | Oh , all this was making it so much harder to refuse . |
| 27 | He 's making it so hard for himself . |
| 28 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 29 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 30 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |