Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to underline his support for the United Nations in the new world order that everyone talks so much about these days , and especially his comments about the British Council , the work of the council , and the BBC World Service . |
| 2 | If the Prince was going to be able to live off it when he finished his naval career and support the wife that everyone seemed so desperate for him to acquire , something radical had to be done . |
| 3 | She is amazed at the attitude of the people she meets : ‘ I thought people would be cold and uninterested , and I ca n't believe that everyone cares so much about us . ’ |
| 4 | No but I 'm flattered that he 's , he seems to be implying that my doing so might help , but that is a matter that er er does n't lie with the Home Office and I really are n't able to intervene . |
| 5 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 6 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 7 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 8 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 9 | It 's just that I get so lonely sometimes . |
| 10 | It 's not the children that I get so annoyed on the the trick or treat and the previous running up to the bonfire night . |
| 11 | WHY IS it that I get so much personally addressed mail ? |
| 12 | I had not realized that I looked so old and tired . |
| 13 | I thought that I looked so smart in my white shoes , shorts , shirt and three cornered hat . |
| 14 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 15 | Stuart said he 'd given Oliver some money , which I thought was quite unnecessary , not that I said so . |
| 16 | ‘ It shocks a lot of people , they do n't believe that I eat so much . |
| 17 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 18 | It will not even pass through their minds that I spent so much trouble and thought on choosing the right disease or the most just punishment for my fictional character . |
| 19 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 20 | It was clear that Geoffrey Howe and myself would be the also-rans , but I was a little surprised that I ran so badly . |
| 21 | All that I know so far — at least , all that is worth telling here — is that there are a number of different glycoproteins of a variety of molecular weights , on both pre- and postsynaptic sides of the membrane , involved in the response to training on the bead . |
| 22 | I promise you that I will continue to listen and where I can I will do my best to respond to the wishes of the ideals of and the aspirations of this movement that I hold so dear . |
| 23 | Caliban was surprised that I seemed so positively gay when he came in . |
| 24 | The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly . |
| 25 | What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten ? |
| 26 | Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order . |
| 27 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
| 28 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 29 | It 's just that I feel so cheap . |
| 30 | that I feel so tired . |