Example sentences of "she be so [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 2 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 3 | ‘ She 's so little that we re-make everything to her size . |
| 4 | She 's so convincing that co-producer Alex Cutler promises , ‘ She 'll break your heart . ’ |
| 5 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 6 | Oh yes , er I mean she 's so lucky that she has all living in Griffing . |
| 7 | Paula Yates , for instance , admits in an interview in Woman magazine that she is so thin that she had to put on weight before she could become pregnant . |
| 8 | She could n't bear him to think she was so selfish that she did n't care what harm she caused . |
| 9 | She was so breathless that her bitter words sounded strangled . |
| 10 | Breeze expected her to refuse , for she had always hated enforced idleness ; but she was so tired that she was glad to stay where she was , lying quite still and doing nothing . |
| 11 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 12 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
| 13 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 14 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 15 | Left alone she was so docile that she ignored Frankie completely , but in the company of the ferocious Rosie she , too , became a dangerous animal . |
| 16 | Because she was so certain that she wanted someone older and more experienced to look after her baby than a young girl straight out of college , Celia had not bothered to mention Edna 's letter to Brian . |
| 17 | Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape . |
| 18 | When her kindergarten time was up , her parents engaged a modelling tutor to come in twice a week , and she was so good that at the age of 7 she was admitted to the Dover School of Art where she stayed until she was eighteen . |
| 19 | She was so relieved that she had saved him . |
| 20 | She was so pleased that he was able to talk so frivolously that she hardly distinguished what he was actually saying . |
| 21 | Her 92nd birthday was featured in Link and she was so pleased that the company still remembered her . |
| 22 | He could n't fathom why she was so anxious that no one else should know of his interest in her . |
| 23 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 24 | Garry 's wife suspected there was another woman and she was so upset that she turned to her brother for help . ’ |
| 25 | She was so preoccupied that she merely nodded , but she looked up sharply when he added , ‘ Dawn has offered to help with any difficult operations where you might need assistance . ’ |
| 26 | She was so shy that she could n't look up when God passed over her , so God missed her and did not paint her blossom . |
| 27 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |
| 28 | She was so weary that it was all she could do not to put her head down on the table and close her eyes . |
| 29 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 30 | This time , however , she was so late that she could not reconnoitre first . |