Example sentences of "[pron] [be] so [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply . |
| 2 | I was so overcome that I approached Shell and offered to buy it . ’ |
| 3 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 4 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 5 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 6 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 7 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 8 | And in Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists continue to work in circumstances which are so threatening that most foreign correspondents covering the conflict have fled . |
| 9 | Its being so means that more than usual demands must be made on available resources , whether human or material . |
| 10 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 11 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 12 | Harris perceived that the I-Thou relationship is represented perfectly adequately by By frequently limiting his scope to I and Thou Shakespeare is creating an interpersonal field which is so restricted that thoughts , ideas , feelings move back and forth between sender and receiver without the need for any other delimitation or definition . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope you are so humiliated that you commit suicide . ’ |
| 14 | But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all . |
| 15 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 16 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 17 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 18 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 19 | We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things . |
| 20 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 21 | In places , they are so crowded that their bodies touch and the cliff seems to have been painted crimson . |
| 22 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 23 | Radiography can reveal the original construction of an object even when it is so corroded that no external evidence is left . |
| 24 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 25 | This is the part where there is a surfaced footway or pavement but at present it is so overgrown that pedestrians have to walk on the road . |
| 26 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 27 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 28 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 29 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 30 | He was so tanned that for a moment Helen failed to recognise him . |