Example sentences of "so [adj] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 2 | He was seeing so much of Fergie he was almost one of the family |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock was so confident of victory he allowed a camera crew in to his secret hideaway in a converted 17th-century lodge to film him and Glenys listening to the announcement of the exit polls on television . |
| 4 | Cider makers are so short of apples they 're urging growers to pick up windfall fruit off the ground . |
| 5 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 6 | It did n't stop them getting into very severe financial difficulties , and you may have read about this in recent times , it , there 's a proposal that the Science and Engineering Research Council may be so short of funds it may close the laboratory down . |
| 7 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 8 | The Government has stuffed the authority so full of cash -it is being privatised with £242m of cash in its balance sheet ( equivalent to more than £140 for every person in the region ) — that it does not need any medium-term credit facilities . |
| 9 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 10 | The boy was by now so full of cake he was like a sackful of wet cement and you could n't have hurt him with a sledge-hammer . |
| 11 | I fired again , calm and yet so full of fear , so full of fear I forget how often I fired . |
| 12 | My Dad come in , there 's me running out while my Dad 's by the door in case one of them jumped I 'm so scared of spiders I hate them ! |
| 13 | " I suppose you 're thinking I 'll be so frightened of scandal I 'll say yes , is that it ? |
| 14 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |