Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 2 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 3 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |
| 5 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 6 | The memory was so strong that he lost himself in it . |
| 7 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 8 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 9 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 10 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 11 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 12 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 13 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 14 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 15 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 16 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 17 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 18 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 19 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 20 | He just walked straight past me , oh well I 'm so sorry and he goes what 's wrong with you anyway lately ? |
| 21 | ‘ I was so sorry when you had it cut . |
| 22 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 23 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 24 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's so little that we re-make everything to her size . |
| 26 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 27 | This is possibly not so unbelievable when you remember their affluence and how loudly money talked , nay shouted , in the 1780s . |
| 28 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 29 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 30 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |