Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] [was/were] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all quite civilised and there were so many of us girls there that we could take it in turn to do the observations . |
| 2 | Because we had people coming into the town that had come out of rooms one and two rooms in Har , in wherever they came from to Harlow and there were so many things that they required for their home that they could n't afford to have big families and pay their way . |
| 3 | I had forgotten how large they were ; they seemed enormous , and there were so many of them , circling overhead , clustered in a tree or hopping about as they squabbled over carrion . |
| 4 | And there were so many new pressures — the long hours you worked , the way your parents disapproved of me , the problems I was having trying to get my own career off the ground . |
| 5 | The rats were hanging from the rope , and there were so many of them that the rope was swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 6 | And there were so many children . |
| 7 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 8 | Day after day , she did what was expected of her and there was so little fire left in her that , when Mr Landor emptied a jug of red wine over a white damask tablecloth and kicked in her direction a cushion which split and sent feathers flying everywhere , she said not a word . |
| 9 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 10 | Support in South Ronaldsay and the neighbouring island of Burray had grown so strong , and there was so much anger , that it was decided within the community that this strength should be channelled into action . |
| 11 | Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night . |
| 12 | And there was so much danger about him — on stage and off stage — it was intoxicating . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day . |
| 15 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 16 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 17 | He was so reasoned , and there was so much truth in what he said . |
| 18 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 19 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 20 | Some of the children at school went out to do a traffic count recently and there was so much volume of traffic that the children were not able to keep up with th putting the in the to keep up with the volume of traffic . |
| 21 | It was such a lovely day , and there was so much to do on the complex , but Shelley could n't summon the enthusiasm to leave the villa . |
| 22 | Well you was okay the pigs , pigs used to come over as well , you see and the la English lamb , if there was any , and the English beef , you see , and there was so many cows killed then as well . |
| 23 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 24 | The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart . |
| 25 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 26 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 27 | But there was so little time left now , for he could get his papers any day … |
| 28 | Two weeks seemed so long to begin with , but there was so much to do . |
| 29 | But there was so much of that past now that he could not easily do so : when in 1959 there were rumours that the original manuscripts of The Waste Land had been found ( false rumours , as it turned out ) the news , according to an acquaintance , " depressed him " . |
| 30 | But there was so much blood — blood on her red petticoat , blood on her black dress and her white veil , blood on the executioner 's shoes , blood all over the floor . |