Example sentences of "was so [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 32 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |
| 33 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 34 | Poseidon was so grateful that he created a constellation in the dolphins ' honour called Delphinus , just west of Pegasus . |
| 35 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 36 | After the baby was born , he was so elated that he did not manage to get to the Town Hall to register his daughter 's existence . |
| 37 | His expression was so tender that it shocked Lee . |
| 38 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 39 | He was so unsuccessful that he came close to packing it in until he allowed his gloomy demeanour to shine on stage . |
| 40 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 41 | ‘ I was so sorry when you had it cut . |
| 42 | The Vicar was so incompetent that he had become an object of common ridicule . |
| 43 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 44 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 45 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 46 | Renascia was so small that you had n't to plan journeys at all . |
| 47 | The black haven beneath the car was so small that he had to press himself hard against Nails . |
| 48 | It was so small if you did n't pay the rent they did n't evict you — they used to flush you out with ferrets . |
| 49 | In Manchester the demand for tickets was so great that they changed hands for upwards of eighty pounds . |
| 50 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 51 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 52 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 53 | Her husband had not realised that she was dying , and the subsequent shock was so great that he became unable to care for his six-year-old daughter who also began to lose weight and perform badly at school . |
| 54 | His misery was so great that he wanted revenge therefore Victor 's family were his victims . |
| 55 | The relief was so great that he found that his hand was creeping across the table towards hers . |
| 56 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 57 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 58 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 59 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 60 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |