Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] is so " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It 's a pity that cousin of yours is so disagreeable . |
| 2 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 3 | The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible . |
| 4 | Practically all the land above 1,500 feet falls into this category and a great deal of it is so poorly drained that only the sourest peaty soils are found . |
| 5 | That is why the initiative of God towards us is so vital for a new start in life and marriage : ‘ We love God because he first loved us . ’ |
| 6 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 7 | McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress . |
| 8 | Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off . |
| 9 | ‘ Your concern for him is so touching . |
| 10 | Spying on me is so much pleasanter than directing the bloody traffic . ’ |
| 11 | And some of you some of you did that this morning although you may not have realised it er but you said well well like Rob said and er just just making people feel part of it by by using their names and that 's exactly the purpose of having these plaques in front and why I asked you to use erm to put your name on them is so that we can do that . |
| 12 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 13 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 14 | ‘ When what 's between us is so personal ? ’ |
| 15 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 16 | The reason you like people around you is so you can have role models to rebel against . |
| 17 | The sea around it is so rough and there are so many rocks in the water that no large ships can land on any of the beaches . |