Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 31 | At home my temperature had followed the expected pattern , but here readings were so low when I was resting , even at midday , that I often kept the thermometer in my mouth for fifteen minutes in the hope that it would rise . |
| 32 | But his family is extremely rich and I do n't expect he knows any shepherds . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 34 | Some manipulation , I dare say , but gentle massage — and then , once the spasms and the pain have gone , Jimbo will be so grateful that I 'll easily be able to persuade him to start his own passive exercises . ’ |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 37 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 38 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 39 | However , I realised that his chances of racing that year were only 50–50 and I told the owners this . |
| 40 | Liz has always taken a great deal of interest in make-up and admits to being ‘ so vain that I wear Revlon 's Aqualash waterproof mascara when diving ’ . |
| 41 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 42 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 43 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 44 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 47 | But it 's the way she 's saying oh I 'm so sorry but I have to go back on it when she 's agreed to something . |
| 48 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 49 | I 'm so sorry if I 'm disturbing you . |
| 50 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 51 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 52 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 53 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 56 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 57 | Ooh aye er it 's it 's er highly technical and I |
| 58 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 59 | Yeah but not only that but I mean if you |
| 60 | So erm you know I 'm glad it 's only that but I suspect when the day comes his car will but he took these erm homeopathic tranquillisers of course thinking his test was going to be a couple of weeks ago . |