Example sentences of "[noun] [that] i [verb] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 2 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 3 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 4 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 5 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 6 | I promise you that I will continue to listen and where I can I will do my best to respond to the wishes of the ideals of and the aspirations of this movement that I hold so dear . |
| 7 | ‘ Those are turf strips , ’ my guide informed me in her calm , assured voice that I found so soothing . |
| 8 | On the other hand , I imagine that under my sublime guidance , this child will in some way be me but without the less desirable bits that I have so many problems divesting myself of . |
| 9 | It will not even pass through their minds that I spent so much trouble and thought on choosing the right disease or the most just punishment for my fictional character . |
| 10 | It 's not the children that I get so annoyed on the the trick or treat and the previous running up to the bonfire night . |
| 11 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 12 | The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly . |
| 13 | During one of his first trips abroad , to Prague , he ended up in a hotel like this and ‘ thought desperately of my own town on the shores of the Mediterranean , of the summer evenings that I love so much , so gentle in the green light and full of young and beautiful women ’ . |