Example sentences of "was [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the end result was that erm I say this man was dead so Married man with four children just coming home from work , minding his own business . |
| 2 | Pittagora was rarely so communicative . |
| 3 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 4 | What was perhaps so satisfying about the sermon was that it was able to turn an apparently negative quality into a positive asset . |
| 5 | It is still lived in by the direct descendant of Sir John Damer , who was perhaps so appalled by the building programme of his brother , Viscount Milton , first Earl of Dorchester , at Milton Abbas , that he vowed to build a small house for himself . |
| 6 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's going to follow it up but I had the impression he was only so interested . |
| 8 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 9 | Heavens ! she thought , and was suddenly so impatient with herself that , seeing it was only for one night , for goodness ' sake , she grabbed hold of a favourite dress and folded that into her case along with some trousers and a spare lightweight sweater . |
| 10 | Polly was suddenly so happy she wanted to shout and sing . |
| 11 | He could not understand why everyone was suddenly so cheerful . |
| 12 | I was apologetic that I was apparently so inexperienced and free of everything . |
| 13 | The sense of " Englishness " that English came to signify was apparently so free of any narrow patriotism or overtly nationalist or imperialist politics that any debate about the meaning of the term itself was deemed unnecessary until quite recently . |
| 14 | He was soon so unwell that he groaned with distress . |
| 15 | He was away so long that Constance began to feel nervous . |
| 16 | If the nuns saw us we could not meet again , and our future was already so uncertain . |
| 17 | Water swilled over the harbour road but Rain was already so wet she barely noticed as she splashed her way towards the town . |
| 18 | And he was already so bright , anyway . |
| 19 | I was just so nervous and negative standing over the putts , especially those from around two feet . |
| 20 | well not a trance , it was just so normal . |
| 21 | It was just so nice . |
| 22 | And then I was just so late , but I got , I came in Luke , so I was a bit early |
| 23 | Now , we never missed Big Bill 's programme on the BBC if we could help it — it was just so tuneful . |
| 24 | And it was just so brilliant ! |
| 25 | ‘ The man gave it to my husband , who did n't ask for names , he was just so pleased to see it . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 27 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 28 | It was just so unreasonable ! ’ she 'd moaned as the tears had begun flowing again . |
| 29 | role plays he was just so tired , he |
| 30 | I was just so relieved . |