Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 2 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 3 | He could not imagine now , in this brilliant daylight , how he had allowed himself to be so weak . |
| 4 | ‘ How kind of you to be so preoccupied with my needs . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not like you to be so backward . ’ |
| 6 | " It 's nice of you to be so philosophical about it . " |
| 7 | Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon ! |
| 8 | ‘ What enabled you to be so certain Heather Mallender visited me here ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How good of you to be so anxious about me , Mrs Wood ! ’ he said . |
| 10 | But even if I were , what right have you to be so disappointed ? |
| 11 | God wants you to be so full of Jesus that you actually start acting like him . |
| 12 | When you book your ( Club 19–30 ) Holiday we want you to be so satisfied that you 'll book with us again next year . |
| 13 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not like you to be so chilly . |
| 15 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |
| 16 | Killing things for fun seems to me to be so immoral as to warrant no discussion at all . |
| 17 | ‘ His memory seemed to me to be so defective and selective as to make his evidence worthless . ’ |
| 18 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 19 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 20 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |
| 21 | It inspires him to be so close . |
| 22 | ‘ No cause for him to be so stuffy , no cause at all . ’ |
| 23 | But it is n't good for him to be so alone . |
| 24 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 25 | Ask him to be so kind as to come here and say Mass tomorrow morning . |
| 26 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 27 | I never expected it to be so hot at this time of the year and I did n't know there was a pool . |
| 28 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 29 | They must have kicked him very hard for it to be so tender . |
| 30 | US linguists Sapir and Whorf who investigated the Hopi Indian language in the 1930s believed it to be so distinctive as to represent an entirely different thought process . |