Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodovico gives an external judgement on him that is essentially right : ‘ O thou Othello , that wert once so good , /Fallen in the practice of a damned slave ’ ( 293f . ) . |
| 2 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 3 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 4 | There were sad farewells as other relatives were obviously so afraid of the North Atlantic . |
| 5 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 6 | ‘ They were just so close . |
| 7 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 8 | ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’ |
| 10 | they were just so amazed ! |
| 11 | It is more likely that the elements of secrecy and self-deception involved in my behaviour were already so strong that what I was actually doing could n't be described in words at all , least of all in the incriminating written word . |
| 12 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 13 | You were always so powerful . |
| 14 | Women were always so emotional . |
| 15 | There had been years of smoking , drinking , sexual intercourse and dances , helped by there being a fire escape outside her bedroom and the fact her parents were always so exhausted they slept like mummies . |
| 16 | We were always so skint . |
| 17 | We were always so close . ’ |
| 18 | You must be heartbroken , you were always so close , I mean even after you were no longer … |
| 19 | I was becoming so tense that my head , neck and even my eyes were always so painful . |
| 20 | The woman looked puzzled — people were always so slow , Carrie thought . |
| 21 | The bazaar drew nearer and nearer — and what a strange thing , McAllister thought , to be such a central part of her life , and she and Matey worked together now , in that , as in everything else , and Matey 's liking for her grew daily , for the eyes McAllister turned on him were always so full of love , and he was easy and happy with her , as he had not been since he was a boy before Africa and Angela Deverill 's betrayal . |
| 22 | ‘ You were always so angry and violent , such a wicked child ! ’ |
| 23 | I could n't tell you because your reactions were always so extreme . ’ |
| 24 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 25 | ‘ I was beginning to wonder if you were always so prickly . |
| 26 | [ to PAMELA , who is holding back slightly ] Why so strange here , Pamela , where you were once so familiar ? |
| 27 | ‘ They were once so close , they were like brothers , ’ added Jason 's cousin Lisa Dowling , 20 . |
| 28 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 29 | Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases . |
| 30 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |