Example sentences of "[noun sg] was so [adj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed this latest move to de-mystify Her Majesty was so unconvincing I could n't help but wonder if — at any moment — Beadle himself ( albeit heavily disguised ) might not appear beside the Queen to inform her that she had been framed . |
| 2 | The best time was in the winter when the snow was so bad I could n't walk the mile across the fields to school . |
| 3 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 4 | Mr Paisley , the politics of Northern Ireland never far from his mind , joked : ‘ Her Majesty mentioned the rain ; I said that was why the grass was so green I could n't get the word orange in . ’ |
| 5 | By this time , my temperature and blood pressure was so high I could not even be given a proper anaesthetic . |
| 6 | The heat was so intense I could feel the hairs on my hands singe . ’ |
| 7 | I could n't raise my wrist up without losing all feeling in my hand , and at times the pain was so intense I could n't sleep . |