Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I found the odd social worker somewhat racist or maybe so ignorant that he appeared racist . |
| 2 | There is a magic to many things in Venice , but no sorcery so powerful , or quite so entertaining , as the multifarious spell of the boats . |
| 3 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 4 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 5 | On seeing me standing in defiance , arms folded and apparently so cool-looking , a hush descended . |
| 6 | She could not bear to feel such a stranger , so alien , and somehow so insecure in her own personality , as if she found herself hard to recognise in these new surroundings . |
| 7 | I always keep a few in stock ( Rule 17A ) ; they 're cheap enough and ever so impressive in the morning afters . |
| 8 | Just natural and nice , and ever so ladylike . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Her hair all frizzed out like a black halo and ever so sweet . |
| 10 | Too happy Harry , the darling of fortune always , and always so sure of the love other men bore him . |
| 11 | She was the most exquisite thing : in life marvellous , in the unspeakable end , heroic : and always so beautiful , so gracious . |
| 12 | For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful . |
| 13 | Always the soft touch , and always so unreliable . |
| 14 | ‘ Are n't they lovely , Joe , and both so different ? |
| 15 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 16 | One can understand a steam locomotive appearing wreathed in smoke and surplus steam to fascinate the unsuspecting person and seemingly so solid that one could reach out and touch it , but a Deltic ? |
| 17 | But his output of madrigals between 1554 and 1603 — more than a thousand secular ones alone — is so overwhelming in bulk and seemingly so equable in accomplishment that even anthologists have generally recoiled from it although Alfred Einstein has published de Monte 's greatest success in his own day , ‘ Verament ’ in amore' in his Fifth Book a cinque voci ( Venice , 1574 ) . |
| 18 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 19 | Cooking became a kind of therapy which he greatly enjoyed , but the results could be bizarre : ‘ things in pastry ’ were a favourite ( the things might be tins of beans and of peppers ) , and sometimes so awful that Dieter and Reid would wait in the car until John had fallen asleep , to avoid having to eat them . |
| 20 | I tell you what , if you get one of the earlier mountain bikes there made of five three one tubing which is lighter than what you 've got , there 's loads of them in the paper for sale and there so cheap |
| 21 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |
| 22 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 23 | His eyes , fragments of pale , clear sky , and yet so impenetrable , were on the doorway , waiting , she thought , for her . |
| 24 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 25 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 27 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 28 | Also there was something decidedly impressive about the sight of Bill Brice kneeling there — so young , so overweight , so ambitious , on such premature bad terms with his wife , and yet so humble and submissive , with the toecaps of his suede desert boots turned over , and a drawing-pin sticking disarmingly in the heel of one of them . |
| 29 | The question , so calmly delivered and yet so unexpected and shockingly brutal , knocked the wind from Ruth 's already emotionally bruised body . |
| 30 | This man who somehow made her feel so good and yet so bad , all at the same time . |