Example sentences of "was so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so impulsive , Ronni thought , watching as he climbed from the car , then , snatching a wad of tissues from the box in the back seat , proceeded to pick half a dozen of the greeny red fruit . |
| 2 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 3 | A patch of dried blood showed on the top where it lay splayed out , and the sight was so pitiful that one of the children began to cry . |
| 4 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 5 | But the trouble was , he was so vile I could n't respect him . |
| 6 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 7 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning . |
| 9 | An affair with this lovely woman who was so rich and inviting , and Viktor 's brief to him , track down the cross . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm used to it , ’ said Constance , and Scarlet thought her daughter tactless for speaking ill of children when Constance 's family was so rich in them . |
| 11 | I tell you , I never knew Bob was so rich ! |
| 12 | ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’ |
| 13 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 14 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 15 | I think I knew it would n't hold , but I was so close . |
| 16 | Flying in the face of the facts , he prophesied that the economic crisis was so close that there was no time to build the party : the RCP must join the Labour Party , whose working class members , given Trotskyist leadership , would become revolutionary under the pressure of events . |
| 17 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 18 | Simon was so close that he could smell his aftershave and the leather of his coat . |
| 19 | It was so close to her head she could hear Bella Kropotkin 's husky , languid voice . |
| 20 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 21 | ‘ It was so close . |
| 22 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 23 | Now he was so close he though he might call on Gary 's horse before he went home . |
| 24 | The corridor was so close to the fields and houses of the transmigrasi that barriers were needed to prevent the elephants from crashing through . |
| 25 | I was so close to the water that I was already beginning mentally to enter their world and to feel their dramas as my dramas . |
| 26 | Although it was convenient for the government to appear to be quite separate from Haketa , the relationship was so close that in practice it would be accurate to describe the organisation as an officially sanctioned and sponsored ‘ tame ’ pressure group . |
| 27 | Balder Head farmhouse was so close to the reservoir that the water lapped up to the garden wall . |
| 28 | The filaments were now electrified , buzzed when touched , could n't avoid being touched , everyone was so close . |
| 29 | But how could I , I thought ruefully , how could I have possibly stopped concentrating when I was so close to him ? |
| 30 | His nose was practically touching the card , he was so close to it . |