Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 3 | When she lifted her head , the sun made everything very black or so white that it hurt her eyes . |
| 4 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 5 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 12 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But Matthew smiled , his teeth white and strong and so sensuous that they sent a shiver up her spine . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | And so miserable that she felt she would never drag herself out of this pit of misery . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The noise was so constant and so intense that it fabricated silence . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The pain which followed immediately was so sudden and so extreme that it went beyond feeling . |
| 24 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 25 | The yew trees in the Grove were dark green and so old that they had grown twisted and lumpy , like arthritic fingers . |
| 26 | The insult was so unjust and so gross that we instituted proceedings for libel and extracted — not without difficulty — a full apology and retraction . |
| 27 | She said in a low , fierce voice , ‘ Why do n't you smile and look nice , ’ and he blinked with surprise , looking so small and so sweet that she softened . |
| 28 | Instantly , as if he had somehow thrown an electrical switch , she felt a surge of responsive excitement — so strong and so unexpected that she trembled involuntarily in his embrace . |
| 29 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 30 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |