Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 2 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 3 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 4 | Some of them were so nasty that they had learned to disguise most symptoms of ill health from her . |
| 5 | ‘ I forgot to wipe the sweat off my hands when I started swinging , ’ he said , ‘ and my hands were so slippery that I fell . ’ |
| 6 | These variations were so great that he questioned the applicability of formulae which used this approach to sampling . |
| 7 | Her changes of mood were so bewildering that he had no idea what she was , angel or devil . |
| 8 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 9 | The imaginings were so potent that they took wing and rustled round the room , little winged souls , small bird-faced holy ghosts , emanations : the whole room was suddenly dense with the vibration of their rustling , the old-fashioned white tiles with their rounded edges glinted with their reflections , the linoleum shimmered , the kitchen cupboards shook , the morbid whiteness and greenness of the paintwork quivered , the exposed pipes trembled and knocked . |
| 10 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 12 | who were so shifty when it happened , |
| 13 | ‘ God 's teeth , no wonder you were so convincing when you said you 'd go against your family . |
| 14 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 15 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 16 | Eight rats were so obese that they developed anterior abdominal wall abrasions . |
| 17 | Indeed the Goldsmiths were so pleased that they granted the headmaster £20 to tidy his garden , and decided to extend the playground yet again . |
| 18 | John , we were so pleased when you rang , man . |
| 19 | In fact at one time before the Pakistan-Bangladesh war there were so many that we called this form of depression Pakistani Syndrome . |
| 20 | And then a big house where the children were so many and we had one mother for all of us . |
| 21 | At Rouen the fuel filters were so good that they took all the dye out of the fuel and became clogged , so we only finished second . |
| 22 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |
| 23 | Julian Rivers , marketing director of Dillons , said : ‘ We have supported Childline in the past and were so impressed that we wanted to help again . ’ |
| 24 | More recently Charles Dillingham and George White had visited the Palace Theatre , London and were so impressed that they booked the Girls to appear in Good Morning Dearie , George White 's Scandals of 1923 , the Nifties of 1923 as well as all the Fred Stone promotions . |
| 25 | They were so impressed that they asked the owner whether he had any other works by Modigliani . |
| 26 | Some of her class members showed four short items and KFA teachers present were so impressed that they have invited Marlene to teach at their Teacher Training Course in November . |
| 27 | Once , in a crowded bar I was forced into conversation with two ladies who were so disappointed that I felt quite guilty . |
| 28 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 29 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 30 | His legs were so weak that they shook beneath him . |