Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 2 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 3 | The American Ornithologists ' Union became active in 1883 , generating so much information that the government established a Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology in 1886 under C. Hart Merriam ( 1855–1942 ) . |
| 4 | I also have a ‘ 63 black Strat which I got recently and that plays so neat ! |
| 5 | These descriptions were vital to writing about these two artists in whose work colour plays so important a part . |
| 6 | That 'll , she 's got seven weeks to go so that 'll leave her five |
| 7 | He insists that they have to go so real equality can be achieved and the class structure ended . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Gran , I want to go so much . |
| 9 | I love the way she does that , she goes so stupid ! |
| 10 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 11 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 12 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 13 | It just goes so quick the time does n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 15 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 16 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 18 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 19 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 20 | I have not heard so much of this recently . |
| 21 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 22 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 23 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 25 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 28 | The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we 'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end . |
| 29 | I 've heard so much about her , I 'm just longing to meet her . |
| 30 | He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her . |