Example sentences of "so [vb past] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 2 | about the room were high chairs and low chairs , bandy-legged chairs , chairs so attenuated that it was a wonder any but a sylph could sit upon them , marqueterie tables covered with marvellous gimcracks , china ornaments of all ages and countries , bronzes , gilt daggers , Books of Beauty , yataghans , Turkish papooshes and boxes of Parisian bonbons … |
| 3 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 4 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 5 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 6 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 7 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 8 | It just so happened that he , you know , he was alright , and the car was a right-off . |
| 9 | But here is a theme already so ravelled that it craves disentanglement . |
| 10 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 11 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 12 | In fact , she was feeling so relaxed that she ate a second pastry . |
| 13 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 14 | Said I can guarantee that you 'll have it in a week or so said that she got to have it |