Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] i " 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 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The feeling was so strong that I actually felt quite emotional — almost tearful , ’ says Julie . |
| 7 | In other words , my guard was now so strong that I would wake myself up rather than allow myself to eat , even in a dream . |
| 8 | The roof of the pub was so low that I could not stand upright . |
| 9 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 10 | At home my temperature had followed the expected pattern , but here readings were so low when I was resting , even at midday , that I often kept the thermometer in my mouth for fifteen minutes in the hope that it would rise . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Some manipulation , I dare say , but gentle massage — and then , once the spasms and the pain have gone , Jimbo will be so grateful that I 'll easily be able to persuade him to start his own passive exercises . ’ |
| 13 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 14 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 15 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 20 | 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 ! ) . |
| 21 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 24 | I 'm so sorry if I 'm disturbing you . |
| 25 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 26 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 27 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 28 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |