Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 2 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 3 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 4 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 5 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 6 | The reception for visiting supporters was so different that I would like to comment . |
| 7 | ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket . |
| 8 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 9 | " The Ryder Cup means so much that I 'd play on one leg if I had to . " |
| 10 | It distressed me so much that I used to keep indoors and go out only in case of necessity . ’ |
| 11 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |
| 12 | Yes , now I would n't slur those quite so much as I would make that all legato . |
| 13 | I think that was why Uncle Hamish had been so delighted when I 'd come to stay with the family , and also — perhaps — why he was in no hurry to help effect a reconciliation between me and my father . |
| 14 | They 're working ever so hard and I must say they were good , you know , erm , cos they have n't finished the job yet , but erm , I think they know what there about you know , and they 've certainly got a lot of energy and it 's a hard job . . |
| 15 | ‘ Your colouring is so unusual that I 'd have thought you 'd have got quite used to answering that question by now ! ’ |
| 16 | And she said so many chairs are so deep that my legs are dangling , she said whereas this one , it 's so comfortable and I can get my feet on the floor . |
| 17 | ‘ Cup rugby would also have appealed to me , but I 'm not so sure that I would have been so enthusiastic about playing in a league , ’ Cranmer says . |
| 18 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 19 | " I am not so sure whether I can handle the fame of being the last project leader of the old St. Joe 's ! " |
| 20 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 21 | I 'm not the sort who can go out with someone unless my feelings were so deep that I can imagine spending my life with them , and having a child . |
| 22 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 23 | I was so angry that I could feel the scorched marks which the blood made on my cheeks . |
| 24 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 26 | I ca n't follow every step of the action , but the flat is so small that I can hear the whole voiceover , even with the water running . |
| 27 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 28 | For a second I thought he was going to hit me , but then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a wallet that he unfolded and thrust towards me , giving me just enough time to see that he held the rank of chief inspector , one of the highest ranks in the Bahamian police force , then the wallet was snapped shut and Deacon Billingsley moved to stand very close to me , so close that I could smell the cigar smoke on his breath . |
| 29 | We were so close that I could see the unhappy mixture of terror and subservience in his face . |
| 30 | It was so close that I could see the tiny ball of silk held between its front pair of legs and its jaws . |