Example sentences of "so [adj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She was free to go as close to the man 's music as she dared , to stare as long as she wanted , to dance on the kerb right beside him where he seemed so tall he almost blacked out the sky , and the music so overwhelming you could hear nothing else . |
2 | He looked over to the childlike form on his bed and felt a protective instinct so strong he almost wept . |
3 | The emergency doctor was called , the doctor phoned for an ambulance , and for Alice to be taken to hospital , but when the ambulance staff tested for her blood pressure , it was so low they hardly got a reading . |
4 | Second , you can not storm barricades that are manned by people so polite they even congratulate Brian Redhead on his ‘ magnificent handling of this debate ’ ( particularly as Brian hardly said anything ) . |
5 | Your letter was sent on to Italy and the post to and fro is so awful it only arrived back here last week when I was in London . |
6 | He thought : You 're going to be so sorry you ever said that , you ridiculous fop , you silly tart , you piece of shit . |
7 | For some reason bream will still take a redworm even when preoccupied with casters , but there are times when the preoccupation becomes so acute you simply have to use casters on the hook . |
8 | It 's so strange he never gets selected now . |
9 | Water swilled over the harbour road but Rain was already so wet she barely noticed as she splashed her way towards the town . |
10 | The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage . |
11 | ‘ It was so funny everyone just fell about laughing . ’ |
12 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
13 | So this one actually goes through from the organization to the team , which Deborah will like , through to the individual . |
14 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
15 | Well I should ima would imagine he 'd just say well in this day and age the banks are just charging him so much he just finds |
16 | Because you know what he 's like when he gets talking , he talks so much he just cuts all your hair off Ye yeah it 's all cut on the sides and cos , cos they 're all taught to finger dry and what have you , he does all this and what have you . |
17 | He was enjoying himself so much he almost bowed . |
18 | Charles hated the place so much he always arranged meetings in pubs , and never took anyone there . |
19 | The totally unexpected mention of the Foundling Hospital , coming on top of the shock of seeing James , had shaken her so much she scarcely knew how to complete the rest of her tasks . |
20 | But when she swallowed , the first mouthful of crisp apple hurt her throat so much she almost cried . |
21 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
22 | ‘ I was enjoying it so much I just wanted to keep going and going ’ |
23 | She said it so much I really thought it . |
24 | The recoil was so violent it almost tore the weapon from his grasp , but he was rewarded by a cry of pain from one of the enemy . |
25 | Much too vivid ; my dreams are always so nondescript I always forget them , you know that . … ’ |
26 | I 'm so relieved I only knocked her out . ’ |
27 | I was so paranoid I even listened at the door . |
28 | The judges were so incredulous they twice remeasured the length of the course . |
29 | Medical men were so unsubtle they usually jumped to conclusions like that . |
30 | Indeed , at times like this , may be it is useful simply to restate what , for many people , is so obvious it often goes without saying . |