Example sentences of "[pers pn] are so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of them are so crazy for drugs they would kill their own mothers to get cash to buy them . |
| 3 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 4 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of them are so thick they thought I was fighting against England in Spain . |
| 6 | Some of them are so faded on the top that when you they 're not they 're not the colour you think they are . |
| 7 | Now careful as you pick the packets up because some of them are so old . |
| 8 | But now Don and I are so straight it 's not true . |
| 9 | Prunella and I are so careful . |
| 10 | I feel almost ashamed that Tony and I are so lucky . |
| 11 | ‘ Your mother and I are so pleased you are so happy . |
| 12 | Charles and I are so sorry to miss you and most grateful to you for guarding our chattels while we gallivant round Italy . |
| 13 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 14 | Yours are so tiny . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Ye are so , ’ called out Tommy Drennan , ‘ but it 's no' fair , you had a start on us all . ’ |
| 16 | How do ye think ye are so fat : It 's me should be complaining . |
| 17 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 18 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
| 19 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 20 | There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about . |
| 21 | But because you are so dear |
| 22 | Very well , keep that if you are so parsimonious , and we will find something else for them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You are so sensible , you have always seen things in a clearer light . ’ |
| 24 | I am sorry you are so burdened with duties . |
| 25 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 26 | If you are so brave , why not go kill the white man who killed your father ? ’ |
| 27 | I think you are especially wonderful , the way you are so understanding about my odd career . |
| 28 | If you are so concerned with the kindly nurture of infants , I suggest you turn your journalistic — conscience — to those children begotten by inadequate stupid parents being reared in appalling conditions in slums all over the country . |
| 29 | If you persist in interrupting me , it is unlikely in the extreme that I will have sufficient time to give you the complete picture which you say you are so anxious to get ! |
| 30 | And , since you are so full of chirp today , you can do Bethnal Green and Stepney . ’ |