Example sentences of "so [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 2 | in the she kept speaking about him as tho , as though he was all , you know , still alright , and that was just so funny the way she said it and I thought I must n't laugh cos that er , i she does n't intend to be funny with it at all ! |
| 3 | Those palm trees are so funny the way the grow straight up . |
| 4 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 5 | Because the War Wagon tower is so high the rifleman can see over the heads of intervening troops and low terrain features such as low walls and hedges . |
| 6 | ‘ And it was so windy the tent nearly blew away ! ’ |
| 7 | If the solar System is at a special place , then the concept of terrestrial mediocrity ( that we are so ordinary the Universe at large must be just like our neighbourhood ) takes something of a knock . |
| 8 | By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ . |
| 9 | It 's so sad the fact that the turned into slime I wish it would carry into . |
| 10 | It 's quite hard , you have to be so delicate the way you go in . ’ |
| 11 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
| 12 | But so vast was the scale of the enterprise and to a certain extent so obvious the direction of the streets , that it was difficult to prevent would-be profiteers from benefiting . |
| 13 | Gentle replied that he would make a Gauguin so fine the artist himself would have wept to see it . |
| 14 | I was so glad the phone box was so near and was operational , as were almost all public phones at that time . |
| 15 | And it 's going so quick the fabric comes down there so quickly you ca n't actually see it to examine it , it 's coming down . |
| 16 | It just goes so quick the time does n't it ? |
| 17 | A HUGE REWARD £10,000 is offered by HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING to any person helping to capture any of the NOTORIOUS BANDS of SMUGGLERS trafficking off our Coasts So heinous are their crimes , so urgent the necessity of checking their activities that ALL ARE INVITED |
| 18 | Black Forest food is good and ideal for those burdened with a healthy appetite , in fact it 's so good the French often nip over the border to enjoy the local delicacies . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect he cursed me when he cursed Pat , only I was so healthy the effect was delayed , or perhaps my rotten paintings were the effect , and I only see it now . |
| 20 | She recently bought six giant maple trees to replant in her back garden but the crane hired for the job was so heavy the road caved in . |
| 21 | ‘ But the crane was so heavy the road caved in leaving a massive hole . |
| 22 | Soon the demands grew so heavy the photocopier could not cope , and originals began to fly about the system . |
| 23 | I find it so depressing the way sane , reasonably intelligent women do n't feel they can go round the corner to get a pint of milk without their mascara . |
| 24 | Although it was so hot the sky was grey and low , not an evening to raise the spirits . |
| 25 | The road was so hot the tarmac was melting . |
| 26 | But that proved so successful the scheme has now been extended to all schools . |
| 27 | But that proved so successful the scheme has now been extended to all schools . |
| 28 | As the numbers were so small the table also gives our results amalgamated with those obtained in Oxford : in these two large teaching hospitals the perinatal death rate in cases in which vaginal delivery is planned ( 2.9/1000 ) is no different from that in elective caesarean section is carried out ( 2.3/1000 ) or in all cases ( 2.7/1000 ) . |
| 29 | Short , cropped styles can go a bit flat so finger-dry the hair with a little styling mousse for added texture to avoid this . |
| 30 | Nothing could have made so apparent the failure of the churches to keep their congregations abreast of developments in the field of biblical scholarship . |