Example sentences of "[pron] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is everyone so coy ? ’ |
| 2 | It is regretted that so many people were unable to obtain a ticket for this game and the committee fully appreciates their keen disappointment ; it was an impossible task to satisfy everyone so great was the demand . |
| 3 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 4 | Everyone so enjoined slaps his dog around the ears , and they all seem to enjoy it . |
| 5 | ‘ Why is everyone so angry ? ’ |
| 6 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 7 | It is hardly decent to envy the baby to whom so much is owed . |
| 8 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 9 | Worst of all , while I was in Bedford there came news of the disaster at Arnhem , with its tragic loss of parachute and glider-borne troops , of whom so many were posted as missing , and my imagination was set working yet more frenziedly . |
| 10 | I wish you good luck in the name of Jesus Christ , the Emancipator , whom so many of your opponents blaspheme . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else . |
| 12 | ‘ You trust me so little , Caroline ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you — did you — love me so little , Neil , that you believe him without question , and me not at all ? ’ |
| 14 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , why are you asking me so many questions ? ’ |
| 16 | PAMELA : Why sir , you have given me so many pleasant distinctions for a Monday — let it , I pray you , be Monday next . |
| 17 | ‘ Jack told me so many things but what I remember most was him stressing that I should keep my energy and emotional levels the same throughout a round of golf . |
| 18 | Then you owe me so many hours do n't you ? |
| 19 | I could n't bear to let you see me so upset . |
| 20 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 21 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 23 | Do n't really like to you know I did have a that made me so close to it . |
| 24 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 25 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ A part of myself … which gives me so much pain ’ |
| 27 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 28 | You cause me so much pain |
| 29 | Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ Why do you hate me so much ? ’ |