Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 2 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 3 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 4 | But it 's the way she 's saying oh I 'm so sorry but I have to go back on it when she 's agreed to something . |
| 5 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 6 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 7 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 8 | I was so relieved that I began to weep tears of joy but Liza was not similarly affected . |
| 9 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 10 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 11 | It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it ! |
| 12 | It has signed a three-book contract and is so bullish that I 've included it in Ones to Watch even though I have not even had one chapter . |
| 13 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 14 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 15 | With a wry smile , Ellie admitted , ‘ It would n't have been so hard if I 'd known what he was talking about . ’ |
| 16 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 17 | Going to hospital is so frightening that I start eating again . |
| 18 | ‘ And I never get time to read , or think , or do anything worthwhile , and I 'm always so sleepy when I do get to the classes that I ca n't take in very much . |
| 19 | It 's so good that I came to know Jesus as Lord before this silly disease got so bad . |
| 20 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 21 | The graphics on this game are so good that I kept trying to push the buttons on the screen . |
| 22 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't speak so good cos I 've got some teeth out and I 've got to have |
| 24 | Do you honestly think your company 's so scintillating that I want to spend still more time in it ? ’ |
| 25 | It made me feel great — so great that I agreed to do yet another lecture , this time in front of a full fourth-year assembly — that 's over a hundred kids ! |
| 26 | To me , the content was so uninteresting that I stopped opening the cover , so that the numerous approaches offering me overpriced advertising space were always rejected . |
| 27 | I learned Dimac from a lama in Tibet and my hands are so deadly that I have to keep them in a locked closet when they 're not in use . |
| 28 | After that they got so frequent that I had to select . ’ |
| 29 | It was so terrible that I began to feel ill . |
| 30 | I 'm so stupid that I started doing cocaine to try to understand him — to get close to him and understand where he was coming from . |