Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 2 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 3 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 4 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 5 | The product itself , for example , though useful may be so commonplace or so inexpensive that it has little intrinsic interest outside its own application . |
| 6 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 7 | When she lifted her head , the sun made everything very black or so white that it hurt her eyes . |
| 8 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 9 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | ‘ God , you 're a lot of trouble , I could get along so easy and so nice if I did n't have you on my tail ’ , ‘ You crazy fool … blubbering like a baby ? |
| 12 | Right alongside were the bows of a ship ; they seemed enormous and so close that I thought the bilge water would splash on our deck . |
| 13 | The scenes of horror and infamy on board of a man-of-war are so many and so great that I think they must rather disgust a mind than allure it . ’ |
| 14 | It 's so straight and so sharp that it works perfectly as a blade , but when you 've finished you can just grind it up into the ground . ’ |
| 15 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 16 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 17 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 18 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 19 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 20 | Inside , the room was bathed in a chic and sickly light , so sickly and so chic that it gave the impression of being a chartreuse light ( chartreuse is this year 's chic colour ; its sickliness needs no introduction from me ) although it was in fact pink . |
| 21 | Celia Fiennes , riding through the same region towards the end of that century , found the Border dwellings ‘ worse than booths at a fair ’ , and so smelly that she preferred to lunch with her horses in the stable . |
| 22 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 23 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 24 | But Matthew smiled , his teeth white and strong and so sensuous that they sent a shiver up her spine . |
| 25 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |
| 26 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 27 | And so miserable that she felt she would never drag herself out of this pit of misery . |
| 28 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 29 | The noise was so constant and so intense that it fabricated silence . |
| 30 | His face too was a paler , healthy pink , and so close-shaved that he looked , with his blade-like glance , as pristine as the shoot from a bulb in spring . |