Example sentences of "so [adv] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
| 2 | Then we realised that she 'd had diarrhoea so badly it was actually oozing out of her collar ! |
| 3 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 4 | She was n't fat , but then neither was Louise , so perhaps it was all right . |
| 5 | so so it was nearly a year before we actually got away |
| 6 | and it 's much lower down , and this thing , it 's like a gap , it 's like this big around the bottom of the sink , so like it was n't even touching the sink , the , the pedestal bit under bits underneath , it 's like , it had a sort of similar sort of shape , so it should fit , but it was like , a massive gap underneath , like no |
| 7 | Rodriguez spoke softly , his voice so low it was almost a whisper . |
| 8 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 9 | So now it was out . |
| 10 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 11 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 12 | ‘ We did some homework on their side but we know them so well it was hardly needed . ’ |
| 13 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 14 | So maybe it was somewhere on mat land me chopper has put down . |
| 15 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |
| 16 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 17 | If this is so then it was probably less of a proletarian organization than its principal rival , the Nationalist Party , or , in its fuller title , the Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang . |