Example sentences of "and so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your lips are so soft , your hair is silky , your body is warm and so tender . |
| 2 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 3 | When he spoke again his voice was warm and deep , and so tender that all the tears spilled over and slid down her cheeks . |
| 4 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 5 | This type of subsoil is not difficult of itself to work , but in rainy weather it breaks down easily , and so deep excavations could be very troublesome indeed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 8 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 9 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 10 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 11 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 12 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 13 | That expression ‘ embitter and spoil ’ was in reality ‘ a Jesuitism of Pa 's , ’ he pointed out , and so typical of their father , who said things like that when in fact he had no answer to the charge . |
| 14 | ‘ Prue ! ’ exclaims Howard , very pleased to hear the familiar impossible voice at such a moment , when he is feeling so raw and exposed from watching himself , and so uncertain whether he is a great man or a great fool . |
| 15 | ‘ My father remembered the man with the cross ; he remembered him because he was young and so nervous . |
| 16 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 17 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 18 | The river meanders have changed position often and so wide floodplains have formed from gravel , sand and mud which has been deposited on the inside edge of each meander . |
| 19 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 20 | And a home in Woolton with eight-foot walls round it and floodlights and padlocks on the gate and burglar alarms linked to the nearest police station and curtains so thick and so wide they never left any gaps even without Velcro . |
| 21 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 22 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 23 | The man is such an incredible mixture , and so fascinating . |
| 24 | Twice defeated now , and the second one so bitter … and so irrevocable . |
| 25 | His Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune was the strangest I have ever heard : drably overcast , not so much seductive as comatose , and so deathly slow that audible flute breaths were essential in the pauses . |
| 26 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 27 | It is here that the endless varied reactions of individuals make the task of caring for old people so fascinating and so complex . |
| 28 | The Fund 's normal facilities were insufficient to meet the new demands , and so additional resources have been made available . |
| 29 | In recent years increases in grant have not been sufficient to compensate for inflationary costs , particularly books and journals , and so additional sources of income have had to be found , in the form of sponsorships , grants , bequests , and donations . |
| 30 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |