Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] i [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 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 3 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 4 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 5 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 6 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 7 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 8 | Liz has always taken a great deal of interest in make-up and admits to being ‘ so vain that I wear Revlon 's Aqualash waterproof mascara when diving ’ . |
| 9 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 10 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 11 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 12 | 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 ! ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 15 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 16 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 17 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 18 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 19 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 20 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 21 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 22 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 23 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 25 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ever so old and I lost the thing |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 30 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |