Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bird , which had fallen off the back of a lorry in Leeds , West Yorks , was so solid it tore a hole in the sump of his Fiat Panda . |
| 2 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 3 | " Well , dear , I 'm only sorry it did n't work . |
| 4 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 5 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 6 | The temptation was so strong it made her feel breathless . |
| 7 | The highest valleys and plateaux of this region disappear into a strange , glittering mist of raw magic so strong it becomes visible even to those without the wizard sight . |
| 8 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
| 9 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 10 | The garden doors , splintered with age , were so low it seemed that only children were meant to enter . |
| 11 | Glennis O'Connor , a secretary in London 's East End , whose son Conrad is now 14 months , says , ‘ I had a horrible time trying to breastfeed — I had one nipple that was so sore it felt like hot pepper was being rubbed into it each time I fed Conrad . |
| 12 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember , it was so awful it seemed a lifetime , why do you endlessly bother me , why do you carp so ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That cross-court angle was so acute it did n't exist ’ — the occasional hyperbole was always forgiven . |
| 15 | Her laugh was so loud it attracted glances from people in the room . |
| 16 | The report says the management was so weak it failed to control the savagery and racism . |
| 17 | To make the offer especially palatable it proposes to accept two now and the other two later . |
| 18 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 19 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 20 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 21 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 22 | It looks so funny it makes me laugh , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 24 | The picture , above , in the National Portrait Gallery , London , is so popular it has even surprised the man who painted it , postman 's son Richard Stone , 40 . |
| 25 | Perhaps because it has been so popular it has many common names , such as hag taper , Aaron 's rod , Adam 's flannel and torches . |
| 26 | ( Like all Mazdas it 's so reliable it comes with a 3-year warranty ) . |
| 27 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 28 | Slightly less competitive than a Hillman Hunter and a good deal less reliable it has yet to race . |
| 29 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 30 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |