Example sentences of "so [adj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Be it ever so humble it still smells of shit , eh ? ’ |
| 6 | Now you talk to any coward , a real coward like myself , and he 'll tell you there 's a point where fear becomes so great it actually turns into courage , not out of anger or fury but that marvellous innate desire to save your own skin . |
| 7 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 8 | When discussing the poor state of British film , now so negligible it hardly deserves to be referred to as an industry , it is frequently suggested that the future lies in Europe . |
| 9 | It was very weary now , so weary it only wanted to drop back to sleep , and yet too weary to fight for that freedom . |
| 10 | The back lawn is so parched it barely needs cutting , but the Percy Thrower book does say that lawns must be cut at least weekly in summer , so that 's what we do . |
| 11 | My gear , the gears in my Mum 's car are so dodgy it always cranks when you changes down to thir second if you do n't get it |