Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After long consideration , he had decided that he would try to write a book so outrageous that the Presbyterian élite of Tollemarche would ostracize the whole Stych family and thus put an end to his mother 's inane social life . |
| 2 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't help wondering why , if you want a holiday so much , you do n't invite your husband to have one with you and you pay . |
| 4 | I want a miracle so much — I 've wished for one so much . |
| 5 | The Men are vex 'd to find a Nymph so wise : |
| 6 | Odd to find a door so comforting , somehow . |
| 7 | It is well-known that the Blitz started with the burning of the London docks , and that this created a blaze so fierce that you could almost read a newspaper at night eight miles away . |
| 8 | And the way he looks a lot so pissed . |
| 9 | The horned toad of South America has a gape so big that it can with ease engulf nestling birds and young mice . |
| 10 | There is a cliff in Kaiserslautern which holds a cave so deep and mysterious that no one has discovered its bottom . |
| 11 | Somehow , since being at Vetch Street , working so hard , and living a life so different from her old one , many events in her past had taken on a different colour . |
| 12 | ‘ Never , in my life , ’ he murmured distractedly , leaving her mouth for a few seconds to hungrily kiss her cheekbone , her temple , to lightly nip the lobe of her ear , ‘ have I met a woman so obstinate , so pigheaded … ’ |
| 13 | Then he paid his fare , added a tip so meagre as to be barely decent , and shuffled across the pavement , through the front gate , and down the path to his semi-detached residence . |
| 14 | It added a phrase so extraordinary that I quote it directly : ’ although these were felt to be isolated incidents . ’ |
| 15 | How nice to receive a letter so full of constructive criticism . |
| 16 | She bit her lip , crumpling the note in her hand , and into her eyes came a look so desolate that Taggy 's heart contracted . |
| 17 | The woman in the next room gave a brief shriek of outrage and damage ; then came a silence so long that it was almost eerie . |
| 18 | ‘ I have seldom seen a person so paralytic . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd never seen a boy so thin and pale-looking . |
| 20 | I 've never seen a Metro so full . |
| 21 | She had never seen a view so beautiful . |
| 22 | ‘ I have never seen a bear so huge , Sir John ! ’ he exclaimed . |
| 23 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 24 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 25 | The men it seems , were utterly overwhelmed by the need to be thus entreated and made a response so gallant , ( alas , unrecorded ) that the ladies in return ( on June 26th ) offered the ‘ Ladies ’ Cup ’ trophy ‘ in recognition of the kindnesses received ’ . |
| 26 | T S Eliot once accused Henry James of possessing a mind so fine that no idea could violate it . |
| 27 | I 'd driven over , and could n't believe a country so beautiful could harbour such violence as I was to see then and year after year ever since . |
| 28 | More worrying still was that Charles was spending huge sums of the company 's money on the Libertarian Party , which espoused a society so liberal that drugs would be legalised . |
| 29 | It is even possible to imagine a Bill so offensive in its content that the Royal Assent would be refused , though hardly that such a Bill would be passed by both Houses . |
| 30 | At last , with a little shaking of his arm , and thrice his head waving up and down , he raises a sigh so piteous and profound that it does seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being . |