Example sentences of "at [pron] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd shot the question at me so unexpectedly I had to have time to recover . |
| 2 | He looked at me so strangely . |
| 3 | Father Jankowski looked at me so kindly I could not tell him . |
| 4 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 5 | No lover ever looked at me so tenderly , she thought . |
| 6 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 7 | Her little eyes look up at me so trustfully , and she sleeps a lot and rarely cries . |
| 8 | ‘ She was starin' at me so rudely , ’ Lou recounted one day , ‘ I very nearly said , ‘ Wait a minute , I 'll get a basin for your eyes ’ . ’ |
| 9 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 10 | Why are you staring at me so hard ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 12 | And it 's all been thrown at them so suddenly , has n't it ? |
| 13 | He was looking at her so intently that she closed her eyes again . |
| 14 | He was staring at her so intently that she wanted to cry out . |
| 15 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 16 | His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently . |
| 17 | He did n't answer , just stood there with his bronzed arms crossed across his chest and watched her as if by staring at her so intently it was answer enough . |
| 18 | When he had looked at her so intently , Vitor d'Arcos had been curious about an intruder , that was all . |
| 19 | No one had ever laughed at her so unkindly . |
| 20 | Why was he looking at her so strangely ? |
| 21 | He was looking down at her so fondly and with such deep understanding that she was encouraged to go on . |
| 22 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 23 | She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen . |
| 24 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 25 | And why did you look at him so coldly ? ’ |
| 26 | Mr Crangle was almost thrown into the sea with them and the Headmaster had shouted at him so loudly he was deaf for a week . |
| 27 | It amazed her , as she stared down at her right hand , that , while loving Naylor with every part of her being , she could have lashed out at him so violently . |
| 28 | ‘ When you 're a bit stronger , I 'll drive you over there each time he calls me in , ’ he said , and Joanna looked at him so gratefully that tears burned at the back of Sophie 's eyes . |
| 29 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 30 | We decided that although we were tired we might never be given another chance to get at it so easily . |