Example sentences of "so [adj] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 3 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 4 | ever so old and I lost the thing |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So Stuart began by telling a couple of jokes , which fell rather flat because he was so jumpy and I do n't think the jokes were much good in the first place . |
| 7 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 8 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 9 | So why am I so lucky and I got you as well ? |
| 10 | I went to see the Postmistress and she said I 've known you all my life , so start work on Monday morning because , you see , it was so quick and I had n't got my references back from the Railway Company but that 's what she said er I can start work on Monday morning . |
| 11 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 12 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 13 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That right is a natural punch for me and could be the best I 've ever thrown , it felt so good and I did n't get any shock at all up my arm . |
| 15 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 16 | 'Cos everyone , she was reading this out , and everyone was going , yeah , yeah and it sounded so stupid and I thought , |
| 17 | As a nurse I knew it was unhealthy to be so overweight and I felt extremely unhappy with what I had become . |
| 18 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 19 | I touched earlier on some of the reasons why we find open behaviour in this country so difficult and I believe it is partly to do with emotion . |
| 20 | My Mrs Hewitt from the Lake District was so nice and I felt she was an old friend , but we wanted to talk about our Christmas shopping , not books . |
| 21 | And that , well that was so nice and I did n't know quite what that 'd go , I just took that , that was the arrangement in the , in the foyer . |
| 22 | She looked ever so smart and I thought well |
| 23 | Next day I did n't feel so bad and I made an appearance for a charity — I really had to do it — then went to visit a relative the following day . |