Example sentences of "so [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie was so solid and content , she was like a shiny red apple . |
| 2 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 3 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 4 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 5 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 6 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 7 | Ladbroke 's latest Champion Hurdle betting : 4-1 Granville Again , 5-1 Morley Street , 6-1 Royal Gait , 8-1 Mighty Mogul , 10-1 Oh So Risky & Vintage Crop , 12-1 Destriero , 16-1 Gran Alba , Staunch Friend & Kribensis , 20-1 Muse & Halkopous . |
| 8 | Of particular importance F is the pressure exerted by the gas ( especially CO 2 , SO 2 and water vapour ) which is formed through the release of volatiles and by the conversion of ground water to steam . |
| 9 | Dinner seemed to be hardly Italian at all , except that there was spaghetti , so English and German was the company . |
| 10 | But why was it so damp and cold here then ? |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't look worried — you were so calm and kind to her . |
| 12 | It is n't so painful and hair removed from the roots in this area becomes very discouraged . |
| 13 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 14 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 15 | No doubt Lenin was mistaken in assuming that administrative functions ( control and accounting ) were so simple and routine that they could be accomplished without special professional training and experience . |
| 16 | The fact that Crosby fought tooth and nail to get the job in an area where the success rate is so limited and expectation so high , speaks volumes for his bottle . |
| 17 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 18 | Now the tiny old man in the window nearest to Billy seemed to be saying something , but his voice was so soft and whispery , Little Billy had to lean right up close to catch his words . |
| 19 | Of course , he was probably just a smoothie , so suave and slick that he could keep about three million women on the line at once . |
| 20 | Reggie and Mary opposite each other , so amiable and self-assured ; Alice sitting at the head of that table , waiting for what would come her way . |
| 21 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 22 | She is so memorable , so petite and sweet-faced . ’ |
| 23 | So sleepy and content was she , that she did n't notice the blunt tip of his great knob slip from her , and move an inch upwards to the forbidden portals of her virgin bottom-hole . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't realised your ambitions were quite so basic or mercenary , ’ said Niall drily . |
| 25 | There were no lavatories on the station , or only filthy ones , so she and I chased down the line and out to the fields every ten minutes or so — poor Mig , she was so good and patient . |
| 26 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 27 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 28 | So great and rapid is the devastation that some have feared that the entire reef might disappear — even though it contains 3000 separate coral islands , stretched 2000 km along the Queensland coast , and covering an area the size of Great Britain . |
| 29 | And there was this awful woman , Mrs so and so , that was always telling women what to do and , she she was n't very popular because some of the things that she suggested that women did to make do and mend were so tedious and time consuming . |
| 30 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |