Example sentences of "so [adj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 2 | The bird , which had fallen off the back of a lorry in Leeds , West Yorks , was so solid it tore a hole in the sump of his Fiat Panda . |
| 3 | So each one got a little harder as you reached the end of your tour ’ . |
| 4 | There were never enough hooks so each one had to take several coats . |
| 5 | He was so tall he had to incline his head to avoid hitting the beams , and his nearness made her tremble . |
| 6 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |
| 7 | Before dinner , John , who was so laid-back he made the trees seem neurotic , offered us a yoga lesson . |
| 8 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 9 | The physician nodded and , scooping up his philtres and potions into a leather sheet , led Cranston and Athelstan from Whitefriars down a maze of streets so narrow they continued to lead their horses . |
| 10 | His eyes were so narrow they looked like gun-slits . |
| 11 | Feelings so strong they made things happen — made the Worm grow . ’ |
| 12 | With devastating confidence , he thrust his finger deep into her molten heat , then raked his fingers back up across her stomach to her breasts with a convulsive , possessive , shuddering movement which triggered a huge surge of longing inside her , so strong she felt dizzy . |
| 13 | Her happiness because of this scene was so strong she closed her eyes so that it would not beam out in great mellow streams and betray her to the sternness of the others . |
| 14 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 15 | The temptation was so strong it made her feel breathless . |
| 16 | Finnan 's passengers stowed most of their gear in the hold and the Hearthwares slept there , but there was room for the others in the three-sided cabin , though the roof was so low they bumped their heads . |
| 17 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
| 18 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 19 | The garden doors , splintered with age , were so low it seemed that only children were meant to enter . |
| 20 | Will was so grateful he said he would base one of the characters of that drama on me . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm so grateful you did n't run over our Nellie , sir . |
| 22 | Glennis O'Connor , a secretary in London 's East End , whose son Conrad is now 14 months , says , ‘ I had a horrible time trying to breastfeed — I had one nipple that was so sore it felt like hot pepper was being rubbed into it each time I fed Conrad . |
| 23 | He was so pissed he did n't notice . |
| 24 | Chris 's sister-in-law loved the baby and when he died she was so upset she told Chris that little Tommy had never had a chance . |
| 25 | And it was sort of quite a thing when that was , went up , and ooh it was so awful they had some terrible things in this town did n't they ? |
| 26 | I ca n't remember , it was so awful it seemed a lifetime , why do you endlessly bother me , why do you carp so ? ’ |
| 27 | She did try , writing what she describes as ‘ two of the most frightful purple passages of stream of consciousness prose ’ , but they were so awful she threw them away . |
| 28 | He agreed the food was so awful he asked us if we would n't mind hiding some of his . ’ |
| 29 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |
| 30 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |